Snøhetta () is a Norwegian architectural firm headquartered in

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Background

The company was formed in 1987 by Norwegian, Kjetil Thorsen, and a group of young architects. They named it Snøhetta after the tallest mountain in the Dovrefjell National Park. In 1989 they joined forces with New York architect, Craig Dykers, to enter the competition to design a replacement for the

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(the winning design for

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wasn't completed until 2001).

Awards

Snøhetta has received the World Architecture Award for the

and the Oslo Opera House, and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Since its completion in 2008, the Oslo Opera House has also been awarded the Mies van der Rohe Award, the EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association) Great Places Award, the European Prize for Urban Public Space, In 2010, through Kjetil Trædal Thorsen’s lead, Snøhetta’s works’ coherence with their environment was awarded the

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, both from an international point of view, for their large scale projects, and at a local, small projects scale.

Notable works

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, Alexandria, Egypt (2002) *Wolfe Center for the Arts at

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in Bowling Green, Ohio (2012) * National September 11 Museum, New York City (2014) *

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Student Learning Centre in

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(2015) * King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra),

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(2016) * Expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016) * Lascaux IV International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France (2016) * Redesign and renovation of

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, New York (2017) * Calgary Central Library, Alberta, Canada (2018) * Under, underwater restaurant in Lindesnes,

(2019) * Blanton Museum of Art (2023) * Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (2024) * Museum of Sex, Miami, Florida (2024) * Qasr Al Hokm Metro Station, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024) * Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, near Medora, North Dakota U.S. (expected completion date in 2026)

References

External links

Snøhetta
Official website
Snøhetta Instagram
Companies based in Oslo Design companies established in 1989 Architecture firms of Norway Industrial design firms Norwegian companies established in 1989 {{Norway-company-stub

Background

Awards

Notable works

Further reading

References

External links