We are looking for some creative talents to join us for an internship period in our studio - both in Iceland and Denmark. We are currently working on a variety of projects; small scale, large scale, in the developing phases, under construction, competitions, etc. If interested please send a mail to Kristján Örn.
Several workshops have been held developing the BYOASE project in Herning // DK. At the moment the local authorities are writing the local-plan for the area.
Last saturday, during the Iceland DesignMarch, we arranged a very interesting gathering in collaboration with Hugmyndahúsið - "The Building for Big Ideas" and Hugmyndaráðuneytið - "The ministry of Ideas". We held a workshop and got Paul Bennet from IDEO to speak and start a discussion on how design could be the next innovative force to get Iceland´s economy back on it´s feet. Around 100 people showed up and participated in an interesting discussion about the future of design and new innovative business opportunities. It left us all with the thougt that design, or creative thinking in general, is at the moment of the utmost importance. It was a great day and we would like to thank Paul, our collaborators and specially all the people that came, for a great afternoon.
This month KRADS is being published in two different magazines. In ARKITEKTEN 3/09 for our proposal in the CITY CHURCH REVISITED / GETHSEMANE CHURCH which received an honorable mention. In FORUM AID as we were among the nominees for the FORUM AID DESIGN AWARDS with the SKIN BAR DERMALOGICA INTERIOR project.
We were among the 21 pre-qualified teams in the internatioal competition for the Headquarters of the bank "Landsbankinn" in the year 2008. Our proposal was done in collaboration with aart Architects and LW-Planning. The winning entrys have finally been announced so now we are free to put our propsal on the web. Here are a couple of images -the whole project will be published next week on our webmag.
We are working on a urban furniture design based on a modular concept. The MODULAR BENCH can be used in various configurations employing the same basic unit.
We are honored to be among the finalists in this years Forum Aid Awards with our projekt for Dermalogica; Skin Bar & Clinic. The award ceremony will take place at the Rival Theatre in Stockholm on February 3. Read more about Forum Aid Awards and the international jury.
Just updated our webmag with 2 new projects. You can now see our proposal for Union Station in Chicago and the project for Gethsemane Church, a competition which we were awarded "honorable mention" in. More to come in the next couple of weeks. Check it out by clicking the magazine here in the upper right corner.
This past weekend we all gathered in Iceland. We spend 4 days workshopping on a competition, planning ahead and finished the weekend by driving the old Volvo around Reykjavik and checking out all the KRADS building sites. Things are actually getting build and it is great to see the progress. We only had time to visit a few of the villas and the Kauptun shopping center. The pictures show the great geometry of the roofs overhang and the the loading bays ready for concrete.
The office in Reykjavik and the office in Århus are both up to full speed again, doing projects. We are now feeling at home in the now office space in Reykjavik downtown, after moving in at the end of december. We are excited to meet and get to know our new interns starting at the office in february to spend the spring term 09 at KRADS.
This is the two winning x-mas cards, in the KRADS x-mas card competition 2008 - congratulation to Kennet and Kristoffer and MERRY X-MAS to all of you.
KRADS (Mads) participated in a "ROUND TABLE" talk//workshop at LYNFABRIKKEN last thursday. The subject was the public urban space of Aarhus and how to activate it more. At the table were, amongst others, Fidel and Emilio from the great design studio WALKING - CHAIR based in Vienna - and of course Lasse and Jeppe from LYNFABRIKKEN. We at KRADS like to thank LYNFABRIKKEN for a great and intense evening.
Tonight, december 3rd, Krads will be among 7 young architectural offices from the nordic countries - presenting their projects, ideas and ambitions - at the NuNordisk RapBattle. The presentations, followed by discussions, will take place at the DogA in Oslo, Norway.
KRADS participated in the project competition "MÅLØV AKSEN" in Denmark after getting pre-qualified with SLA landscape architects, SLETH MODERNISM, Oluf Jørgensen Engineers. We were one team amongst five who was pre-qualified. We are sorry to say that our team did not win the competition, the winning team was the great architects of ADEPT and LiW Planning.
The twin-villa's are almost finished - here are the latest shots taken on the site this weekend.
Backstage Architecture is a collection of projects that represents an original panorama of architecture on a global level across a network of professionals. In it are the names and contacts of architects under 40 from forty-five different countries, one per country, each selected and presented by a referee in the book Worldwide Architecture.
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