Art of playing fair when nobody’s watching: man & the commons by Nicolás Boullosa on October 2, 2024 A rock concert, a fragile city, and the unseen cost of crowd behavior. What happens when personal freedom clashes with …
Family wraps homestead in greenhouse to warm up & grow food all year by Nicolás Boullosa on August 11, 2024 When Margit-Kristine Solibakke Klev, an architect working near the Norwegian town of Kongsberg, decided to design a home for her …
North of the Sun: outdoors culture & remote communities in Norway by Nicolás Boullosa on April 24, 2024 When traveling across Scandinavia a few years ago, we most appreciated the casual sense of caring about the outdoors. The …
Tesla faces competitors in mature EV markets, but startups struggle by Nicolás Boullosa on May 10, 2023 The future of electric cars may have already arrived in Norway, where 80% of new car sales were electric in …
Viking era’s wooden Norse church in shape after 800 years by Kirsten Dirksen on November 27, 2016 With the conversion of Norway to Christianity (beginning around 1000 AD), wooden “stave” churches were built across the countryside. Over …
Philosopher’s hut deep in the fjord: Wittgenstein in Norway by Kirsten Dirksen on April 10, 2016 Over 100 years ago, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein went to the fjords of Norway to escape the scholarly world of Cambridge. …
Abandoned turf house becomes remote cabin getaway in Norway by Kirsten Dirksen on October 18, 2015 In Norway, owning, building, maintaining a rural cabin is a national pastime. With just 1 person for every 15.5 square …
Norwegian wood: LEGO-assembling a rural prefab cabin in 1 day by Kirsten Dirksen on September 7, 2015 There are 500,000 cabins in Norway for 5 million people, explains architect Marianne Borge. While the size of these second …
Denmark's organics, Spain's trains & Chad's carbon footprint by Kirsten Dirksen on February 17, 2009 At a one-year-old’s birthday last month where a typically Barcelonian mix of Brits, Americans, Spaniards, Catalans, a Dane, an Italian …
