Snøhetta

Snøhetta is an international Norwegian architecture, landscape and design firm, based in Oslo. Founded in the late 1980s by Kjetil Thorsen, Craig Dykers and a group of young architects, the firm has since expanded internationally, with seven studios located in Oslo, Paris, Innsbruck, New York, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Melbourne; its current Norwegian entity, Snøhetta AS, was registered in 2012 and was recognized in 2025 as a high-growth company by the business daily Dagens Næringsliv. The firm pursues a transdisciplinary practice spanning architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture and product design, with the ambition of creating places that connect societies with one another and with their environment. Among its notable timber projects, Snøhetta designed the Høyt Under Taket climbing center in Norway, whose cross-laminated timber panel structure allows great architectural freedom, as well as pentagonal wooden cabins adapted to Norway’s windy climate and the solid-wood canopy of the Vesterheim Commons project. The firm has also delivered major international works such as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo and the 9/11 memorial in New York, as part of an avowed approach of environmental and cultural responsibility and of promoting local and sustainable materials.