CONSTRUCTION IN ICELAND

A small photo album here. The small side extension to the private house that I am doing in Iceland is being constructed at the moment. Nice to visit and follow and actually provide some tech info also. Here are two funny photos from today, 21. june 2011. Sverrir and Raggi are building the small extension […]

June 21, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ICELAND  Comments Closed

VISUAL STUDY IN NUUK, GREENLAND

Conversation in the meeting room in the Nordic Institute. The group explaining the project. Katja Nyborg from Napa on the far left. Our project: VISUAL GREENLAND is one of a number of design strategic projects that I am participating in. It was a course run by our Cirrusnetwork, a network of the schools of design and […]

October 1, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

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NORDICDOGS – – – – – – – – – – – – – -MOZAMBIQUE Tweet This Post

April 30, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

PANCHO GUEDES, ARCHITECTURE ON A GRAND SCALE

PHOTO ALBUM OF PANCHO GUEDES A collection of details from my track around Maputo on a nice rainy Sunday morning. I went last Sunday on a treasure trail to a number of the buildings designed by Pancho Guedes, the other of the two most famous Portugese architects. I actually live in a great block of […]

April 29, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN  No Comments

PRIVATE HOUSE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT

The final touches on the floor slabs, rendering the concrete so it is ready for use when the house is built, and the wooden neighbouring house in the background. Trees and mountains. Even though I am mostly working with design strategy, located in Mozambique, I still love to be an architect. My projects mostly take […]

April 29, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

BOOKMAKING – A METHOD FOR DESIGN

Documentation, reflection, introspection, fun. The book to the left I made for my neighbours in Benand, with the cover out of a tourist dish-towel with an image from the village. The other images show the bookmaking in progress on the kitchen table The sketch book is the most important tool that the designer has. Yes, […]

April 15, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

BULLFIGHTING ARENA IN MAPUTO

The entrance side of the stadium In our minds Bullfighting has always been predominantly a Spanish sport. But it is also Portugese and of course then South-American. Since Mozambique was a Portugese colony from since colonies were invented (and this is obvious everywhere today in Modern Mozambican society) they also brought with them Portugese Bullfighting. […]

February 27, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: PONDERINGS  No Comments

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT

The house in rebuilding stage. Photo taken from the graveyard. One of my drawings of the complete project, graveyard wall on the right with a roofed gate. I have now over a year been working on a project in the north-west of Iceland, rebuilding a farm, an old concrete structure since ca 1925 and landscaping […]

January 29, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments