Snøhetta (company)
Snøhetta is an international architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and brand design office based in Oslo, Norway and New York City with studios in San Francisco, California, Innsbruck, Austria, Paris, France, Hong Kong, China, Adelaide, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden. Founded by Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Christoph Kapeller and Craig Edward Dykers.Awards
Snøhetta has received the World Architecture Award for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 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 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 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, both from an international point of view, for their large scale projects, and at a local, small projects scale.Notable works
- Lillehammer Art Museum in Norway
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt
- Oslo Opera House
- Norwegian Embassy in Berlin
- National September 11 Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York, NY
- James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC,
- Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto
- Expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, CA
- Lascaux IV International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France
- Calgary Central Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Under, underwater restaurant in Lindesnes, Norway.
- Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio
- Charles Library at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
