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  • Profil chair by Hydro, designed by Keiji Takeuchi

Profil chair by Hydro, designed by Keiji Takeuchi

BIG SEE Product Design Award 2026 – Winner, Italy, Japan, Norway, Product design, Sustainability and Responsible Design|

Profil chair is an aluminum seating system by Keiji Takeuchi for Hydro's R100 project, exhibited at Milan Design Week, 3daysofdesign, and Dutch Design Week in 2025. It combines minimalist aesthetics with hyper-local production, using
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  • ECHOES by Volver Studios, designed by Kristine Five Melvær

ECHOES by Volver Studios, designed by Kristine Five Melvær

BIG SEE Product Design Award 2026 – Winner, China, Home Accessories and Ambience, Norway, Product design|

Echoes, by Kristine Five Melvær, is a poetic rug collection inspired by the layers of life and the memories we carry. It consists of three hand tufted and 3D sculptured designs, each in three
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  • VARIABLE™ MONOCHROME by Varier Furniture, designed by Peter Opsvik

VARIABLE™ MONOCHROME by Varier Furniture, designed by Peter Opsvik

BIG SEE Product Design Award 2026 – Winner, Furniture for Living Spaces, Norway, Poland, Product design|

Variable™ was designed in 1979 by Peter Opsvik. It is the original kneeling chair and has set the standard for this furniture category. Decades since its conception, the chair remains unique in its construction,
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  • Stange Junior High School by ASAS arkitektur

Stange Junior High School by ASAS arkitektur

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2026 – Winner, Educational buildings, Norway|

Rising at the heart of Stange, the new five-track lower secondary school gathers two formerly separate communities into one shared future. ASAS guided the project from early studies to the final built form, shaping
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  • Buranbanen Activity Park by Agraff Arkitektur

Buranbanen Activity Park by Agraff Arkitektur

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2026 – Winner, Norway, Public / open space and landscape|

Buranbanen Activity Park is inspired by the industrial character and working-class history of the Buran neighborhood. The color use, play structures, and art expressions give the place a rough and industrial feel. Buranbanen Activity
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  • Folkeparken Primary School by Poetic Architecture and Norconsult

Folkeparken Primary School by Poetic Architecture and Norconsult

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2026 – Winner, Educational buildings, Norway|

Folkeparken School in Kristiansund is designed as a learning landscape, where architecture, nature, and community grow together. Built to Passive House standards and equipped with integrated solar panels, the project reflects Poetic Architecture studio's
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  • Sørvik Kindergarten

Sørvik Kindergarten

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Educational buildings, Norway|

Children attending Sørvik Kindergarten enjoy an idyllic rural setting in Northern Norway, with ski slopes and hiking trails just beyond the gate. The village of Sørvik has a population of around 1.300, and the
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  • Buckle dining chair

Buckle dining chair

BIG SEE Product Design Award 2025 – Winner, Denmark, Home and Living, Norway, Product design|

Buckle is a dining chair with a futuristic appearance, designed primarily for home use. With its minimalist design, clearly defined geometric shapes, fully upholstered seat and backrest, and sleek solid wooden legs, it blends
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  • Pavilion Brekstad

Pavilion Brekstad

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Norway, Public Buildings|

Pavilion Brekstad is a transformation of an old military bunker located at Fosen in Mid-Norway. Fosen is a beautiful peninsula with remarkable landscape meeting the Norwegian Sea in the west and the Trondheimsfjord in the
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  • Community Landscape

Community Landscape

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Norway, Public / Open space|

A rippling parametric installation in the frozen arctic of Norway, ‘Community Landscape’ by Bjørnådal Arkitektstudio redefines the concept of a grandstand into a monumental, functional work of art. The 30-meter-long structure winds between the
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  • Cabin Senja

Cabin Senja

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Norway, Residential – houses|

The cabin is located near a small fishing village called Hamn, Senja. On this site the client wanted a family cottage with panoramic views to Senja's stunning mountains and nature. In such a beautiful
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  • Lofoten beach camp

Lofoten beach camp

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Norway, Tourism buildings|

The building is used as a restaurant and service building for the campsite it is connected to. The house is located between the main road and the beach, limited by avanlange zone and spring
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  • Greenstation

Greenstation

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community (public and commercial wooden buildings), Norway, Wood|

Greenstation's vision is to create a new mobility experience that inspires new sustainable habits. This will be the precondition for accelerating the transition to an emissions-free society and complying with the transport policy goals
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  • Tungestølen Tourist Cabin, Luster

Tungestølen Tourist Cabin, Luster

Exhibition Shine, Norway, SHINE Tourism Design 2022|

Situated in Luster in the western part of Norway on a small plateau overlooking the beautiful Jostedalen glacier, Tungestølen comprises a constellation of pentagonal tourist cabins designed by Snøhetta for Luster Turlag, a local branch
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  • PAN – cabins, Gjesåsen

PAN – cabins, Gjesåsen

Exhibition Shine, Norway, SHINE Tourism Design 2022|

Cabins functionsThere is a mezzanine with a double bed, and there is possibility for six sleeping places in total. Extra sleeping places is provided by beds that are integrated into the inner walls, and which
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  • FLYT, Bathing installations for Fleischer Park, Fleischer brygge

FLYT, Bathing installations for Fleischer Park, Fleischer brygge

Exhibition Shine, Norway, SHINE Tourism Design 2022|

The project is the outcome of an art-in-public-space competition that the municipality ofMoss organized in 2018 to revitalize a former industrial area west of the city center as part of its 300-year anniversary. The competition
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  • Flokehyttene, Ryvarden in Sveio Kommune

Flokehyttene, Ryvarden in Sveio Kommune

Exhibition Shine, Norway, SHINE Tourism Design 2022|

Situated on the far end of the headland in Sveio, a 30 minute drive from Haugesund, where endless sky meets the majestic sea, you can find the Ryvarden lighthouse. It was from this site
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  • Øyna Cultural Landscape Hotel, Inderøy

Øyna Cultural Landscape Hotel, Inderøy

Exhibition Shine, Norway, SHINE Tourism Design 2022|

The “Øyna cultural-landscape-hotel" is in Inderøy municipality in central Norway. Hotel is located on and into a hill above the old Sakshaug Church (appr. 1000 years old), with a view over the cultural landscape of
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  • Cabin in Ulvik

Cabin in Ulvik

Exhibition Shine, Norway, SHINE Tourism Design 2022|

This cabin in Ulvik, Western Norway, is a homage to country-road architecture. Important as sources of inspiration are the works of Rudolf Olgiati; with its blend of vernacular architecture and historical design principles, as
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