Situated within a picturesque fjord and protected against the Atlantic’s harsh winds while offering views of the neighboring islands, Klaksvík is the second-largest town in the Faroe Islands. The firm Henning Larsen was commissioned to design an urba
Located in Tórshavn, capital of the Faroe Islands – an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark –, the new center designed by BIG brings together three different schools into one single building of 19,200 square meters, with approximately 1.200 s
This building for the municipality of Eystur dilutes its edges amid nature with a passable green roof that crosses the river. The designer is Osbjørn Jacobsen, Faroese partner of the Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen, and author too, of the Harpa Conc
The new Education Center is located on a hillside, 100 meters above sea level, outside Torshavn, the islands’ capital. It is the largest education building in the history of the Faroe Islands, and is meant to serve as base for the coordination and de
The intervention scatters the buildings to break the dominant unidirectional winds to which the city is exposed due to its situation in between two opposite mountain ridges...
