Svandalsfossen
The mighty Svandalsfossen waterfall lies on the National Route between Sauda and Ropeid, northwest of Saudafjord, at the innermost, northernmost head of the vast Ryfylke fjord system. The adjoining vista points and viewing platforms have been designed …
Tjuvholmen Icon Complex
The Tjuvholmen development in Oslo is located southwest of the centre of the city and is a continuation of the Aker Brygge development built in the 90’s. The site of the Tjuvholmen project is one of the most beautiful places in Oslo. The project will t …
Additional restrooms for DogA
This addition to the Design and Architecture center gives greater flexibility when running the center and allows more parallel activities to take place. The available room was small, without any daylight, and consisted of a variety of different surface …
Evergreen – Jens Praet/Vibeke Skar with Northern Lighting
a double interview to Jens Praet and Ove Rogne for Northern Lighting Studio Jens Praet area: How did the collaboration with company and client? Have you enjoyed ample freedom or did you develop your designs on the basis of the indications and request …
Grete Prytz 1917/2010
Grete Prytz died on 25 September 2010, aged 93: in full activity and always with the same energy. I met her for the first time in 1994 and was literally awestruck by her beauty and intelligence: I was in company with Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926-2000 …
Greetings from Fjordbyen
Backed by a strong municipal government and a network of equally wealthy and visionary investors, Oslo has in the last decade ventured on a project of territorial transformation of a range that is almost unique in the context of old Europe. Chiefly cen …
area 115+ relax
presentazione/introduction The need of relaxation text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Rest ennobles man text by Paolo Giardiello Not only objects text by Antonio Gentile intervista/interview The importance of …
the need for relaxation
In a period as feverish and complex as ever before, where everything seems to happen at once due to the speed of communication, when we are interconnected in every moment by an omnipresent web; a period that is crowded, or rather overcrowded, by events …
Rest ennobles Man
Relax – the spaces dedicated to it and the objects ideated for that activity – is the theme on which this special issue of AREA centres. It may be useful, in this context, to clarify the origins of the term relax and its declination in contemporary soc …