Architects in the far north have to accommodate extreme light conditions when designing their buildings–leading to some stunning innovations. Those of us who live close to the equator take a daily ...

Danish design and architecture heritage will soon be in the spotlight more than ever before as Denmark’s capital Copenhagen begins its year as the UNESCO World Capital of Architecture. According to ...

At its core, Scandinavian design is a balancing act: Simple but not sterile, thoughtful without trying too hard, and ...

Eva Frederiksen, Assistant Director, Architecture and Design, of the Denmark International Studies (DIS) program will deliver a lecture titled “New Spaces in Scandinavian Architecture” at Higgins Hall ...

In his book Nordic Light: Modern Scandinavian Architecture, Henry Plummer, professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, writes eloquently about the singular ...

When you visit the headquarters of the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta, on the Oslo Fjord, you see, upon entering, an open kitchen and pass a long table where architects discuss projects over ...

As Sweden, Norway and Finland up their stylish ante, Copenhagen is making strides to remain Scandinavia’s leader in cutting-edge beauty. Since Danish designers pioneered a new kind of down-to-earth ...

The Wall Street Journal and Brownstoner Queens announced yesterday that the Swedish firm White Arkitekter had been selected to develop the Arverne East site in the Rockaways in the FAR ROC competition ...

There are few better places to spend a Scandinavian summer than in a breezy cottage by the water. One stellar example is the Summer House completed by Swedish architecture firm Kod Arkitekter in the ...

Scandinavia was the exemplar for 20th-century British architecture, the place that designers most wanted to recreate. Britain shared with Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland a superficially similar ...