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Architecture and interiors
Practice
Minneapolis and Oslo
Studios
2011
Founded
Taking projects for 2027
Now

Buildings that hold light, weather and time quietly.

We design houses, libraries and workplaces in northern climates. Few materials, long views, details that age well.

Selected index

Example content
  1. Fjord HouseResidence2025
  2. Stone LibraryCivic2024
  3. Hill StudiosWorkplace2023
  4. Lake PavilionCultural2022
  5. Court RowsHousing2021
A board-formed concrete wall with tall dark windows and a figure in a doorway, in black and white
Stone Library, west wallPhoto: stock, for layout

Selected work, 2019 to 2025

Six projects

Example projects
  • A tall white modern house with dark windows, in black and white

    Fjord House

    Residence
  • Stepped concrete volumes against a grey sky

    Stone Library

    Civic
  • Angled white panels beside a dark glass tower

    Hill Studios

    Workplace
  • A low concrete building with stacked boxy volumes

    Lake Pavilion

    Cultural
  • Row houses with dark projecting bay windows

    Court Rows

    Housing

In progress

Quiet Room, a small chapel in white plaster

View all work
  • A white plaster archway opening onto a sparse room with a dark sofa

    Quiet Room

    Sacred

Case study 02

Stone Library

Example project
A pale stone staircase between plastered walls, in black and white
Client
City library board
Location
Duluth, Minnesota
Area
2,400 m²
Status
Completed 2024

A reading room set into the hill, lit from above so the shelves never see direct sun.

The brief asked for a library that felt calm in a long winter. We used one stone, one timber and a single roof light that tracks the day.

A quiet living room with a low sofa and tall windowsA concrete stair seen from below

Approach

How a project moves

A white architectural model of a small house on a plinth

  1. Site first

    We spend a season on the site before we draw. Light, wind and snow set the plan.

  2. Fewer materials

    Two or three materials, used honestly, inside and out.

  3. Models, then drawings

    Every scheme is tested as a physical model you can hold.

  4. Built to age

    Details chosen to weather well and be repaired, not replaced.

Studio

Fourteen people, two rooms, one long table

We stay small on purpose. A partner leads every project from the first site walk to the final handover.

About the studio
A designer drawing at a desk lit by a lamp, with rulers and pens

People

Partners

Example names
A portrait of a young man by a tall window

Erik Lunde

Founding partner

A portrait of a woman tying her hair by a window

Mina Haas

Partner, interiors

A portrait of a bearded man in a jacket

Jonas Berg

Associate

Awards and press

Example marks, not real publications
  • NORDIC DESIGN REVIEW
  • Plan & Section
  • THE BUILDING JOURNAL
  • Material Prize
  • Field Notes
  • ARKITEKT ANNUAL

Journal

Notes from the studio

All entries

Inquiry

Start with the site

We reply within a week, and visit before we quote.

A sweeping curved façade of layered metal bands

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