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Landscape Architecture: Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk
Location: Atnasjön, Norway
Excerpt from: Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk (b. 1958) studied architecture in Oslo and at the Cooper Union in New York. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and was a nominee for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 1996. He was awarded the Norwegian State Architecture Prize in 1998.
Hølmebakk is famous for his many, cleverly detailed, small-scale works such as a private library in a wooden cube, a workshop in a brick tower, or the viewpoint platforms on Sognefjell. Although modest in scale and design brief, these structures attest in their own way to Louis Kahn’s maxim what is has always been.
©Image credits: Jørn Hagen
©Image credits: Jarle Wæher
©Image credits: Jørn Hagen for Statens vegvesen
©Image credits: Jarle Wæher
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what came first… the concrete seems to hover and gives the impression it was dropped from a great height. great intervention in such magnificent scenery