The Ernst Strassacker foundry has been casting bronze since 1919. The labor intensive work with the columns includes high tech digital production, heavy industrial processes and precision craftsmanship.

Large blocks of Norwegian Anortositt are waiting to be cut and bush hammered. The slabs are up to 1,8 x 2,3 m.

The arches were transported by helicopter and joined on site. The foundation of the house consists of four stainless steel brackets placed with precision and bolted to the bedrock.

Inspecting the area behind the memorial with regards to loose rocks and security measures. Inside you see how the drinking water of Tyrifjorden is secured against dirt from the building site with a double filter-curtain.

Finally on site work for the National Memorial at Utøyakaia can begin.

The Virginia series - four houses based on female literary characters - was made between 1997-2001. he series include four large models in scale 1:20 and twenty-three large pencil drawings: House for a Young Woman, House for a Mother and a Child, House for a Housewife and House for a Widow. Pine wood, mdf, veneer, sepia ink, plaster and acrylic.

Beate Hølmebakk interviewed about the Postludes exhibition in April 2020.

The four jigs of plywood were tested and measured on site in order to have the final brackets of stainless steel positioned correctly on the bedrock.

Seventeen 50 cm deep holes of 40 mm diameter make up the foundation for the house which will span 29 meters. Later on stainless steel rods are anchored in the holes and welded to brackets designed individually to meet the terrain.

Study trip for architectural inspiration.

Solo exhibition showing paperworks developed from working drawings of the office’s projects.

We are happy to be among the chosen contributors to the celebration of the Danish Landscape Magazine’s 100 years anniversary. Our project is 40 fictive landscape images produced from areal photos of Norway’s main land nature reserves.

Two projects between architecture and landscape architecture; one about memory and reflection, the other about experiencing nature in the city.

Beate Hølmebakk is head of the jury for the Kasper Salin Prize 2020. The prize was presented to Malmström Edström architects for the residential project Viva in Gothenburg.

The Architecture, Art and Photography table and one of the prints from Per Berntsen’s Metsä series: the pavilion is ready to receive its visitors. More than 300 000 people visited the fair. (Photo Luis Callejas)

Beate Hølmebakk represented in Breaking Ground, Architecture by Women, Phaidon. The Forvik Ferry Stop was selected to represent the work of manthey kula in the book.

The aluminium tables have arrived from Stuttgart and are ready to be placed inside the Panorama Hall. The size of the elevator set the dimensions for the pieces. We will install the elements together with Uniplan and lcla .

The three meter long wooden model will cantilever from the railing of the exhibition space at Deutsches Architekturmuseum.

Study trip to look at exhibitions and the National 9/11 Memorial.

A full scale prototype of one of the tables for the Guest of Honor Pavillion is temporarily installed in the publishing house. We are very grateful to Gyldendal for making it possible for us to examine the structure under the roof of one of architect Sverre Fehn’s last buildings.