Nordic Sustainable Architecture
Architecture and design practices from Nordic regions emphasizing environmental responsibility, natural materials, and sustainable living.
Tengbom Restores Tensta's Pagoda-Roofed 1980s School and Reopens It as a Shared Campus for a Stockholm Suburb
In Spånga-Tensta, Stockholm, a heritage-listed 1980s school of brick, cast concrete and pagoda roofs reopens with its character carefully kept intact.
Jesper Kusk Arkitekter Sets a Timber Holiday House on Raised Decks Above the Kattegat in Rågeleje
On a narrow north-south plot in Rågeleje, Denmark, a 158 m² timber pavilion trades bulk for a deep roof, an oak frame and decks that read the dune.
Reykjadalur Hot Springs: A Thermal Resort Designed as a Village Where Time Stops Counting
Stone houses, green roofs and a river island stage form a resort that shifts between quiet everyday rhythms and the crowds of a large-scale event.
Note Design Studio Steps a Skåne Longhouse Down a Sloping Österlen Site and Lines It in Lye-Washed Pine
A plastered, zinc-roofed villa in Österlen, southern Sweden, where lye-washed pine and dark stone turn a farmhouse type into a room for gatherings.
Trondheim School of Architecture: A Banded Copper Landform That Puts Its Bet on the Skin
A shortlisted school for Trondheim wraps a flexible, student-centric program in layered copper fins and a woven glass canopy across a sculpted site.
SNOOZE: A Sleep Building Assembled from Louvered Grids, Colored Spheres and Tessellated Pods
A team proposes a rest building where louvered boxes, colored spheres and ribbed teal pods offer different ways to pause in the city.
Tengbom Builds a Red-Clad Archive with a Timber Atrium for the National Archives of Sweden in Härnösand
In Härnösand, Tengbom pairs vast column-gridded archive halls with a warm glulam atrium, giving a 35,000 m² state repository a human-scaled public face.
The Northern lights: An Architecture College in Trondheim Built Around the Act of Watching
Anastasia Askerko stacks three low floor plates near Dragvoll, opening its workshops to neighbours and turning a tiered drawing hall to the horizon.
Thermal Blue: An Icelandic Spa Laid Out in Looping Paths, Grass Banks and Skylit Pavilions
A shortlisted spa sinks its bulk into a grassy slope beside a thermal river and opens small guest houses to the northern lights overhead.
Not a Number Architects Splits a Halkidiki Stone House into a Tower and a Long Wing Beneath Ancient Olive Trees
A 200 m² retreat in Halkidiki, Greece, reworks the rubble stone house as a tower, a planted bar and porches threaded through ancient olives.
Circle of Nature: A Concrete Ring Lifted Over Hveragerði's Steaming Water
A closed circular plan on slender piers turns a hot spring into a shared centre for bathing, film, performance and quiet reflection.
Norway Architecture Academy: A Glass Courtyard That Makes Interaction the Curriculum
In Trondheim, a glazed atrium, sunken workspaces, a public roof deck and modular apartments turn a school of architecture into a meeting ground.
SP(R)INT STUDIO and Nissen Richards Studio Turn a Mývatn Visitor Center into a Window on Volcanic Iceland
In Mývatn, North Iceland, a light-touch interior refit lets lava fields, pseudo craters and the lake carry the exhibition rather than compete with it.
Architecture as the Bridge to Nature: A Thermal Bath in Iceland You Can Walk Over
A ring of green roof, a crossing bridge and sunken pools turn an Icelandic bathhouse into a landscape trekkers walk across before they ever step inside.
Architectural College, Trondheim: A Timber School for Architects That Argues With Its Own Plan
A Norwegian timber college with pitched peaks and a wedge-shaped plan, shortlisted at Elementary and judged sharply on typology.
Atelier Carle Builds a Shared Laurentian Retreat for Two Friends Behind Board-Formed Concrete Walls
In Wentworth-Nord, Québec, SONO House delays arrival with stratified concrete walls, then opens a hemlock frame to northern light and forest.
slóð: A Thermal Spa That Hands Its Roof Back to the Trail
A low concrete spa carries a walking path across its roof, tucking baths, saunas and stepped seats beneath it in a storm-filled valley.
Mirrors don't lie: A Trondheim Architecture School That Hangs a Reflective Block Over Its Own Entrance
Faceted mirrored soffits, an indoor street of timber huts and copper-toned cladding test how a school for architects can watch itself being built.
SHED Reworks the Scandinavian Farmhouse into a Dark Timber Family Compound on Washington's Dyes Inlet
In Silverdale, Washington, a high-performance home and guest house pair dark timber gables, alder plywood and concrete with an open line to the water.
Snøhetta Reworks Longyearbyen's 1951 Community House into the World's Northernmost Fine Dining Room
In Longyearbyen, Svalbard, a 120 m² interior of red linoleum, two-tone oak and layered moiré textiles answers polar night and midnight sun.
