Divided in eight sections, the show gathers videos, computer animations, 3D models, photographs, drawings and texts. The first section looks at the practice itself and its offices in Oslo and New York. The following five are devoted to five key projects: the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, the Ras Al-Khaimah Gateway Development, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, all presented with accompanying scale models. The following section presents three museum buildings in Norway and the last highlights three of Snøhetta's art projects.
The highlight of the exhibition is a touch-screen display providing fingertip access to data on 100 of Snøhetta's projects. Other features are the accompanying videos to be screened in the small exhibition hall: The Desert Castle tells the story of the Ras Al-Khaimah Gateway and Building a Legend provides an introduction to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The exhibition was produced by the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in close cooperation with Snøhetta. It was commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and brought to Helsinki by the Norwegian Embassy in Finland, integrating the program of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.
Snøhetta: architecture, landscape, interior
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Kasarmikatu 24, Helsinki
