Snøhetta at Milan Design Week

Milan Design Week is finally back, and Snøhetta will be showcasing several projects from different studios across various locations throughout the week – projects from Snøhetta Product Design and Graphic design in Oslo, a concept design from our interior architects at the New York studio, as well as the opening of the architectural exhibition “Arctic Nordic Alpine”, curated by our Innsbruck Studio. It is Snøhetta’s first official attendance at the Milan Design Week, and we are looking forward to seeing and spending time with friends and colleagues again, showcasing new projects, socializing, and having inspiring conversations.

 

“Snøhetta's approach to design and architecture has always been rooted in multidisciplinary collaboration, expanding our expertise from Architecture and Landscape to Interior Design, Product Design, Graphic and Digital Design to gather as much knowledge and experience to make informed and uniquely inspired decisions along the way. We talk about our collaboration methodology as celebrating the "singular in the plural" acknowledging different perspectives, both inside and outside our own organization, to reach holistic solutions and to ensure we keep learning and evolving.

During Milan Design Week this year we are physically launching a project that exemplifies this collaborative spirit, where Snøhetta together with Fornace Brioni and Studio Plastique have explored what it takes to make waste valuable through our Forite project. The learnings from the project have great value in themselves, but the impact of the project remains limited unless we turn it into something bigger. That’s why we continue to push past regulatory challenges, solving sourcing problems, ensuring certifications, and making the products available to a larger market. Only then can the project really have an impact.

Forite Tile 01 and 02 signal a clear push towards a new form of aesthetic driven by resources and honesty in material use. The project aims to prove feasibility and create new value for an abundant yet largely unused group of materials: glass from electronic waste.

In an industry that demands transparency and consistency as a standard, Forite embraces the variance and complexity embedded in waste materials. To us, Forite is just the beginning and an example for us and others to learn from. The potential in materials that are currently not used efficiently due to restrictions, regulations, old habits, and systems, or lack of political incentives is enormous.

We hope you’ll find time to stop by our Forite stand at Alcova, or any of our other Snøhetta events to have a chat while in Milan this year. Perhaps we’ll find ways for making an impact together in the coming years,” says Marius Myking, Director of Product Design at Snøhetta.

 

Here are Snøhetta’s highlights for Milan Design Week 2022:

 

 

LAUFEN - The Shape of things

On Monday the 6th of June, LAUFEN Bathrooms and Snøhetta's New York studio are collaborating on an in-person installation. Members of their interiors team recently delivered a series of visionary renderings created for Laufen inspired by the geometries of their Ilbagnoalessi product line. The images will be installed in the Laufen space during Milano Design Week to create interactive displays. The renderings were also utilized in a digital invitation Laufen produced to promote the installation.

Lodes Volum Series, doing more with less

On Tuesday 7th of June, the Venetian lamp manufacturer Lodes will open their brand-new flagship store at Via della Moscova 33 in Milan, which will present the Snøhetta designed and recently launched Volum pendant series.

Arctic Nordic Alpine exhibition

Also on Tuesday 7th of June, we will open the Arctic Nordic Alpine exhibition at PoliMi, the School of Architecture in Milan – put together and organized by our Innsbruck Studio. Before the official opening, Kjetil Thorsen, one of Snøhetta’s founding partners, will give the inaugural lecture, speaking about the philosophy and ideas behind the exhibition. The exhibition will be open from June 7th to July 27th, so make sure to stop by if you are in Milan during that period.

Forite Tiles Launch

Our award-winning project, Common Sands - Forite tiles, made of recycled glass from electronic waste, will also be presented in Milan, with a specially designed pop-up showroom at Alcova, put together by members of Snøhetta Design in collaboration with our two partners, Fornace Brioni and Studio Plastique.

 

We are looking forward to seeing you in Milan.

 

 

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Photo: Michal BarbuscakPhoto: Michal BarbuscakPhoto: Michal Barbuscak

 

 

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About Snøhetta

For almost 40 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects. Snøhetta kick-started its career in 1989 with the competition-winning entry for the new library of Alexandria, Egypt. This was later followed by the commission for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City, among many others. 

Since its inception, the practice has maintained its original transdisciplinary approach, and often integrates a combination of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, product design and art across its projects. The collaborative nature between Snøhetta's different disciplines is an essential driving force of the practice.

Today, Snøhetta has a global presence, with studios in seven locations spanning from Oslo to Paris, Innsbruck, New York, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Melbourne.

Snøhetta is currently working on a wide range of international projects, including the Shanghai Grand Opera House, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Dakota, Harbourside redevelopment in Sydney and La Croisette in Cannes, to name a few. 

Recently completed works include Vertikal Nydalen in Oslo, Beijing City Library, the renovation of Musée national de la Marine in Paris, Orionis - the planetarium and observatory of Douai, Airside in Hong Kong, Esbjerg Maritime Center in Denmark, 550 Madison Garden and Revitalization in New York, as well as Volum lamps for Lodes.

Some of Snøhetta's previous projects include Ordrupgaard Art Museum expansion in Denmark, the Cornell University Executive Education Center and Hotel in New York City, Le Monde Group Headquarters in Paris, including the wayfinding and signage, Europe’s first underwater restaurant, Under, the redesign of the public space in Times Square, the expansion to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lascaux IV: The International Centre for Cave Art, Powerhouse Brattørkaia and design for Norway’s new banknotes.

Snøhetta’s working method simultaneously explores traditional handicraft and cutting-edge digital technology. At the heart of all Snøhetta’s work lies a commitment to social and environmental sustainability, shaping the built environment and design in the service of humanism. Every project is designed with strong, meaningful concepts in mind – concepts that can translate the ethos of its users and their context.

Among many recognitions, Snøhetta has been awarded the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the Aga Kahn Prize for Architecture for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. In 2016, Snøhetta was named Wall Street Journal Magazine's Architecture Innovator of the Year, and the practice has been named one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company two years in a row. In 2020, Snøhetta was awarded the National Design Award for Architecture, bestowed by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2021 and 2022, Snøhetta’s Forite tiles won the Sustainable Design of the Year by Dezeen and Best Domestic Design by Wallpaper* in 2022, and the wayfinding system for Le Monde Group Headquarters was acknowledged with Monocle Design Awards. In 2023, Snøhetta won a number of awards for the Esbjerg Maritime Center and was named Architects of the Year at the Monocle Design Awards, in 2024 included a number of awards to Beijing Library and the BIA 2024 Award to Snøhetta and in 2025, Snøhetta was recognized with the OPAL Special Award for Sustainability, among others. 

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