Peter Zumthor’s recently completed project in Norway was fourteen years in the making, due in part to its challenging site and to the Pritzker prize-winning architect’s highly deliberate way of working.
in the the northern Norwegian village of Birtavarre, the Sabetjohk Pedestrian Bridge spans 147 feet across the 500-foot-deep Gorsa Gorge—northern Europe’s deepest canyon.
Until his death in 1707, the parson poet Petter Dass wrote prolifically from the medieval church of the small shoreline farming community of Alstahaug—hard by the western slopes of Norway’s dramatic Seven Sisters mountain range.
Project Specs Petter Dass Museum Alstahaug, Norway Snøhetta << Return to article the People Architect Snøhetta www.snohetta.com Project Team: Project Architects: Tarald Lundevall, Maria Svaland Principal Architects: Craig Dykers, Kjetil Thorsen Architects: Jim Dodson, Ellen Heier, Tom Holtmann, Bartec Milewski, Andreas Nygaard, Astrid Van Veen Interior Architect: Snøhetta Interior Architect: Heidi Pettersvold Landscape Architect: Snøhetta Landscape Architects: Lars Jørstad Nordbye, Jenny Osuldsen Engineer(s): Structural Engineering: Norconsult AS v/ Frank Jacobsen Engineering Geology: Norconsult v/ Arild Neby Engineering Lighting: Ingeniør Per Rasmussen AS v/ Per Einar Skog MEP Engineering: VVSplan AS v/ Lars Beck FEDRA: Norconsult AS v/
From afar, Snøhetta’s National Opera House for the Norwegian Opera & Ballet appears like a marble-and-glass iceberg floating in the eastern Oslo harbor of Bjørvika.