Norway
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Dorte Mandrup has been chosen to create a new visitors center in northern Norway. Named The Whale, the building will rise out of the landscape like a small hill and offer visitors a choice spot to watch migrating whales pass by.
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A trio of aluminum-clad cabins bring a distinctive shine to Manshausen Island, a private resort located within the Arctic Circle.
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Norway has famously adopted electric cars at a staggering rate – some 60 percent of all cars sold there this March were battery-powered, for example. And now a startup has poked its head above the ramparts, hoping to deliver a 186 mph (300 km/h), hard-charging electric super-sedan built in Norway.
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Visitors to Norway can now dine both on and with fish in an impressive new restaurant by Snøhetta. Appropriately named Under, the building is part-sunk into the sea and is encased in a concrete shell designed to withstand the harsh conditions on the seabed of Norway's rugged southern coast.
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Constraint often proves fertile ground for inspiration and this indeed proved the case for Arkitektværelset AS. The Norwegian firm overcame a remote location and tricky terrain, as well as strict planning regulations while designing the unusually angular Hooded Cabin.
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Getting caught in bad weather while commuting is annoying, but doing so while exploring north of the arctic circle is serious. To offer hikers in Norway a safe refuge and a destination to enjoy the view, Spinn Arkitekter and Format Engineers created a hiker's hut that can withstand nature's worst.
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This elevated take on a cabin in the woods was influenced by such disparate sources as children's book regulars the Moomins, A-frame lodges, and electricity towers. Located in a forest in Norway, it's currently available for rent.
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Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), working with local firm A_Lab, has won an architecture competition to design two stations for a new metro line planned for Oslo, Norway. Construction on the line is due to begin in 2020 and the stations are expected to be completed by 2025.
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For years, scientists have seen silicon as a hugely promising material in the world of lithium-ion batteries. Scientists at Norway’s Institute for Energy Technology are now claiming to have overcome some of its limitations with a new material it calls SiliconX.
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We initially covered Snøhetta's ambitious design for Europe's first underwater restaurant back in late 2017. The high-profile firm has now revealed that the appropriately-named Under is, well, under construction in Norway's southernmost tip.
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Tucked away in a chilly forest north of Oslo, Norway, lies a large solar observatory named Solobservatoriet (aka Harestua Solar Observatory). The observatory has been in use since the 1950s and is now getting a stunning upgrade courtesy of Snøhetta.
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Travelers seeking relief along Norway's beautiful coastline will have a stylish new stop for their disposal at their disposal, with the local road authority snipping the ribbon on what is one of the more dapper-looking crappers we've laid eyes on.
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