Snøhetta is an architecture and landscape practice founded in Oslo, Norway, and named after a mountain in the Dovrefjell range. It grew from a group of architects and landscape architects, including Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Craig Dykers, who shared an office in Oslo from 1987 and wanted architecture and landscape treated as a single idea. In 1989 they entered the open competition for the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, which they went on to build; it was completed in 2001.
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The Oslo Opera House (2008) is clad in white granite and Carrara marble, and its sloping roof comes down to the water as a plaza people can walk up; it won the Mies van der Rohe Award. Lascaux IV in Montignac, France (2016), holds a full-scale replica of the painted cave on the same hill as the original. The Calgary Central Library in Canada (2018), designed with the Canadian firm DIALOG, is entered under wood-clad arches inspired by the cloud arches of Chinook winds. Under (2019) in Lindesnes, Norway, has a dining room 5.5 metres below sea level and is the largest underwater restaurant in the world.
Oslo Opera House2008 · Oslo
Lascaux IV2016 · Montignac
Under2019 · Lindesnes
Norwegian Wild Reindeer Pavilion2011 · Hjerkinn
Calgary Central Library2018 · Calgary
Powerhouse Brattørkaia2019 · Trondheim