Atelier Norr — Copenhagen / Oslo
Buildings that hold light, weather and people well
We design houses, housing and cultural buildings across Scandinavia, in timber, concrete and stone, for a long and quiet life.
01 — Projects
Selected work, 2019–2026
02 — Practice
Less, built carefully
Atelier Norr was founded in 2012 by Sigrid Aalto Holm and Mikkel Strand. We are nineteen architects, landscape designers and model makers working between a harbour warehouse in Christianshavn and a small studio on Tjuvholmen in Oslo.
Our buildings begin with the site: where the light falls in February, how the wind moves off the water, what the ground will carry. From there we work with few materials, used honestly, and details that will age without fuss.
We take on a limited number of commissions each year so that a partner leads every project from the first sketch to the last site visit.
A good building should feel inevitable on its site, as if it could not have been anywhere else.
03 — Services
What we do
- 01
Private houses
New homes, extensions and careful renovations of listed and modernist houses.
- Residential
- Renovation
- 02
Housing
Multi-family and co-housing schemes with developers, cooperatives and municipalities.
- Residential
- Masterplanning
- 03
Cultural and civic
Libraries, culture houses, chapels and public baths, often through open competitions.
- Cultural
- Competitions
- 04
Interiors and furniture
Fixed joinery, lighting and furniture designed alongside the building.
- Interiors
- Joinery
04 — Recognition
Awards
2026
Mies van der Rohe Award, shortlist
Vestre Kulturhus, Aarhus.
2025
Statens Byggeskikkpris
Fjordhuset, Hardanger. Norway's national award for building quality.
2024
C.F. Møller Medal for housing
Nordhavn Rækkehuse, Copenhagen.
2023
Wood Award Scandinavia
Skogskapellet, Telemark.
2021
Danish Architecture Prize, nominee
Havnebadet, Aarhus.
Published in
- Nordic Built Review
- Plan & Section
- Fjord Journal
- Concrete Quarterly
- Spaces North
- Detail & Light
- Atrium Annual
Planning to build?
We begin every project with an unhurried conversation on site.