Fab 40: Longva Architects, Norway

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A practice working on a variety of public commissions and private houses, Longva Arkitekter is headed by Knut Longva, overseeing a small and flexible team of eight.

The Oslo-based firm has just completed three big commissions; the low-rise container-style HQ for Norway’s Accident Investigation Board in one of Oslo’s industrial areas; offices for the Norwegian Defence Medical Services, a simple building featuring raw materials and including interior woodwork which references back to the traditions of Scandinavian Modernism; and an elegant pre-patinated Nordic Brown-coloured copper extension for Oslo’s National Library.

More projects are currently on the drawing board, including, sports, education and public work, all in a true Scandinavian spirit of bespoke and well-thought out sophisticated simplicity.

www.longva-arkitekter.no

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Ellie Stathaki
Ellie Stathaki

Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).