Thursday, April 29, 2010

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND GETS A NEW ENTRANCE


A collaboration between architect/artist Theresa Himmer and Kristján Eggertsson, of KRADS, resulted in a new entrance to Icelands National Gallery. The new entrance welcomes animals of all shapes and sizes, arriving by air or by land, to visit the gallery.

The new entrance is a part of the group exhibition "Dyndilyndi" - at the National Gallery until the 2nd of may.

Friday, April 16, 2010

2.ND PRIZE IN THE COMPETITION FOR A NEW HIGH SCHOOL IN MOSFELLSBÆR, ICELAND




We have just received a 2.nd prize for our proposal in the competition for a new High School in the town Mosfellsbær in Iceland. The competition was open and 39 proposals of high quality were competing for the winning position. More information about the project will be published here on our site shortly.

We would like to send our gratitude to our team that together with us the partners at KRADS ARCHITECTURE are:
Bjarni Þorsteinsson, intern & architecture student
Vilborg Guðjónsdóttir, intern & architecture student
Pétur Blöndal Magnason, intern & architecture student

Special consultants:

Guja Dögg Hauksdóttir, architect
Kjartan Rafnsson, civil engineer
Klaus Mikkelsen - M+, architect

Thursday, April 8, 2010

MODULAR BENCHMARK


The city of Athens is throwing an international design contest - looking for a new bench to brighten up it´s urban environment. More than 500 proposals have been admitted and can be viewed on the AthensBenchmark website. You can also rate the different proposals pushing the ones you like forward in the competition. Our favorite is of course our very own "Modular Benchmark". If you agree with us feel free to take on the challenging task to figure out how to do the actual voting.... it is not easy and definitely not for the quickly diverted. The voting stops on april the 14th.