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Saivu / Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Pushak Architects, Bjørbekk & Lindheim Landscape Architects

Oct 2011

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Landscape , Bjørbekk & Lindheim Landscape Architects, Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Nordland, Norway, Pushak Architects

Saivu Valnesfjord

Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Pushak Architects, and Bjørbekk & Lindheim Landscape Architects shared with us their 1st prize winning design in a competition for new gateways to the Sjunkhatten National Park in Nordland, Norway. The park has a focus on children and the jury found the proposal’s focus on the mythical fit to enrichen children’s experience of nature. It is a dramatic and beautiful landscape close to Bodø in northern norway between fjords and snow covered mountain peaks. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

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Strusshamn / Eriksen Skajaa Architects

Feb 2011

By Hank Jarz — Filed under: Urban Design ,Urban Planning , Askøy, Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Norway, Strusshamn

Residential Alternative

Norwegian design team, Eriksen Skajaa Architects has shared with us their urban study for the redevelopment of a former industrial site in Strusshamn, a Norwegian coastal settlement. Follow after the jump for additional images and a brief description by the architects.
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Palynopolis / Eriksen Skajaa Architects + Christina Charlotte Tolfsen

Oct 2010

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Awarded Competitions , Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Norway, Oslo

Norway based Eriksen Skajaa Architects’ proposal about Urban Beehives was recently acknolwegded in the Oslo Triennale. The project explores how biodiversity can act as a catalyst for urban development and generate ideas to respond to social diversity. The study examines the environment of the Aker River as an infrastructure for urban food production as well as an apiary at the Vaterland Park. The proposal intends to illustrates how biodiversity, small-scale urban gardening and food production can contribute to a new layer of urban development centered on the riverbanks.

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Shuffle Haugerud Center / Eriksen Skajaa Architects

Jan 2010

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Architecture News ,Awarded Competitions ,Housing ,Mixed Use ,Residential ,Retail , Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Europan 10, Oslo

Eriksen Skajaa Architects shared with us their awarded proposal for Europan 10 with their design of the Haugerud Center, entitled Shuffle. Haugerud, originally an area born from the utopian ideals of the Modern Movement, now struggles to a have a clear sense of what it stands for. Shuffle aims to rediscover Haugerud’s lost identity by exploring low rise/high density urban planning. The buildings create a village-like atmosphere with multi-functional structures that can be used for housing as well as public functions.

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