Public Realm in a Design Portfolio — Selected works by Snøhetta, Part Three

Gerald Zugman and Helene Binet, photographers

Snøhetta expands the area of public realm in a design for a performance theater in Norway, their home country. Architecture and urban form are the prospect for public conviviality and Bjørvika of Oslo has the stage in the city ‒ a theater of movement.

Renewable Folded Shell

© Dennis Radermacher, photographer

Located near New Zealand estuarial waters, a community building is framed with pleated edges that form a zigzag perimeter. When people arrive to a community centre they arrange their personal effects along the wall: bags, mats, towels, and water bottles. The community of Mount Pleasant has individual-sized niches along the floor so they may separate… Continue reading Renewable Folded Shell