Site visits, competition results, one talk, and an open call. Written by whoever was there. Newest first.
The schist arrived on Tuesday from a quarry twelve kilometres north, and by Friday the first course was down: 14 200 mm of dry-laid wall, 440 mm deep, laid by two men who have done nothing else since 1988.
We had drawn the wall at 400 mm. They laid it at 440 because that is what the stone wanted, and they were right. The drawing has been revised.
Ingrid gave the fourth-year lecture at AHO on Thursday: an hour on overhangs, drips and the 1 800 mm line, with one slide of a beautiful building that is now black at the base.
The argument, in short: a 760 mm overhang keeps driving rain off the cladding to a height of 1 800 mm in Bergen conditions, and it costs less than any coating you can buy.
The fifth bay closed on Friday. 214 000 bricks, laid in a Flemish bond that took the bricklayers three weeks to agree on, and the arches are within 4 mm of the drawing across all five bays.
The scaffold comes down in March 2026, which means we will see the whole facade for the first time three years after we drew it.
One position, from January 2026, for someone one to three years out of school. You would work on houses with Sunniva and on the Røros guesthouse, and you would spend real days on site.
Send four drawings — not renderings — and half a page about a building you have visited twice. No portfolio PDFs over 10 MB, please: our connection here is from 2011.
Petter has built the Røros guesthouse at 1:20 three times: once as we drew it, once with the roof 400 mm lower, and once with the stair on the other side. The third one is the building.
The models stay on the long table until the building is finished. Nobody is allowed to put a laptop on that table.
214 entries, and we came second with a chapel that is essentially a roof and a wall. The jury called it “severe”, which we have decided to take well.
The drawings are in the index. We would still like to build it.
Ninety-six children moved into the Grünerløkka kindergarten on Monday. The windows start at 600 mm, which is where four-year-olds look, and within an hour there were eleven of them lying on the floor watching the yard.
The paling fence took four days and cost more than the kitchen. It was worth it.
Fjordhus received the Houen Foundation Award on Thursday, which is the oldest architectural prize in Norway and is only given when the jury feels like it.
The citation mentions the plinth. We are pleased about that: it is the part nobody photographs.