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Points of view – rare projects by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk Despite being a small architecture firm based in Oslo, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk’s work is both highly ranked and awarded internationally, and his rare and time-consuming projects range from designing solutions for dangerous tourist attractions to extravagant concrete homes. By Line Elise Svanevik
Established in 1992, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk’s office works across a range of projects, including everything from simple design and interior projects to building and planning works for bigger developments, including complex ventures in interdisciplinary teams. 66 | Issue 105 | October 2017
Norway’s third most visited tourist attraction The Oslo-based architect firm has designed one of Norway’s most visited tourist attractions, Vøringsfossen, which is a highly complex waterfall project and a work still in progress. The proposal for
the area surrounding the waterfall was drawn by Hølmebakk and his team back in 2008. “It’s been a proper marathon project,” says Hølmebakk. “We won the competition almost ten years ago, where we were up against five other offices – and it’s taken several years to plan it.” The actual construction work for the waterfall area started in 2015 and is projected for completion in 2023, which means that the planning stage stretched over seven years and the construction stage over eight years. “There are sever-