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: architecture, iceland, private house 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: architecture, art, DESIGN, greenland, nordic, scandinavian, visual communication Posted in: DESIGN Comments Closed
MY OTHER SITES
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April 30, 2010 Tags: architecture, DESIGN, development, maputo, mozambique, social design 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: architecture, CIAM, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique, pancho guedes, TEAM-X 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: architecture, DESIGN, iceland, mosfellsbær, mountains, private house 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: architecture, art, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique, oslo, reykjavik, sketchbook 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: architecture, bullfighting, maputo, market, mozambique 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: architecture, DESIGN, farm, iceland, rebuild Posted in: DESIGN No Comments