Aurland Lookout

 
 

Size:
2200 m2

Location:
Aurland, Norway

Status:
Completed 2006

Aurland Lookout was designed by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen. We won first prize to in an invited competition in 2002. This project is part of a national program on tourist routes commissioned by the Norwegian Highway Department. The pictures actually say more than a thousand words.

Credits:
Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen

Photographers:
Bent René Synnevåg, Nils Vik

Awards and Recognition:
Design Curial, World’s 10 Best Public Toilets, Winner, 2015

Wallpaper* Magazine, Best Public Project, Nominated, 2007

Norwegian National Construction Prize, 2006

Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize, EU prize for Contemporary Architecture, 2006

Honourable Mention at the AR Emerging Architects Awards London, Honourable Mention, 2006

Condé Nast Traveler, One of the Next Seven Architectural Wonders of the World, 2006