The special issue focuses on contemporary Norwegian architecture, and on its pages you can read and view prestigious projects such as the new National Opera House in Oslo, the National Tourist Roads and the new Science Centre on Svalbard, as well as modern architecture’s take on the traditional Norwegian coastal cabin.
Norwegian style follows last years study trip to Norway by the journal’s editor-in-chief Suneet Paul. Paul was part of a six-party group of architects who visited Norway as part of an initiative taken by the embassy to spur Indo-Norwegian co-operation in the field of architecture.
Paul successfully made contacts within the Norwegian environment, and the articles feature contributions from Karl Otto Ellefsen, Head of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Nina Berre, Director of Norsk Form – Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway and Snøhetta amongst others.
Norwegian architecture is also represented in the July issue of Architecture + Design where the new Monastery for Cistercian Nuns in Tautra was used as an example of contemporary religious spaces.
Architecture and design is one of the embassy’s prioritised fields of Indo-Norwegian cultural co-operation, and will be featured in the upcoming Public Diplomacy event his autumn.