Snøhetta designs Beirut bank featuring chequerboard walls and rooftop gardens
Snøhetta has won a competition to design the headquarters of Banque Libano Francaise in Beirut, the firm's first project in Lebanon. More
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Snøhetta lines Aesop store in Oslo with faceted oak panelling
Three-dimensional oak panelling covers the walls, ceiling and counter of this Aesop store interior in Oslo, designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta creates curving wooden amphitheatre for Aesop's Düsseldorf store
Shelving crafted from Douglas fir curves around the interior of skincare brand Aesop's first Düsseldorf store, which Snøhetta designed to feel like an amphitheatre (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta's Kjetil Trædal Thorsen urges architects to work in the "non-free world"
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: architects need to work in non-democratic countries to help improve conditions for the people that live there, says Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. More
Critics compare Snøhetta's SFMOMA extension to a "gigantic meringue" and a "cruise ship"
Critics have had mixed reactions to the Snøhetta-designed extension of Mario Botta's San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with descriptions ranging from a "good citizen" to a "baked alaska slumped on the skyline". More
Aesop ION store in Singapore features Snøhetta-designed "upside-down forest"
Timber battens cover the ceiling of skincare brand Aesop's newest store in Singapore, which architecture firm Snøhetta based on a nutmeg plantation that once occupied the site (+ slideshow). More
"We could never recreate Mario Botta's SFMOMA" says extension architect Craig Dykers of Snøhetta
Interview: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens this month with a Snøhetta-designed extension to its original Mario Botta building. In this interview, Snøhetta partner Craig Dykers explains how he tried not to step on the toes of Botta's Postmodern structure. More
SFMOMA reopens with Snøhetta extension that triples its gallery space
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is reopening after three years of renovation, including an extension by architecture firm Snøhetta that piggybacks on the original Mario Botta-designed building (+ slideshow). More
Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion "looked like a spinning top"
Movie: Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones discusses the spinning top-shaped pavilion designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen in 2007 in the next instalment from our exclusive video series. More
Snøhetta unveils design for Temple University library in Philadelphia
Architecture firm Snøhetta has released images of a new library it has designed for a Philadelphia university, stating that it aims to challenge the "traditional typology of the research library" (+ slideshow). More
Fritted glass creates patterned facade for Ryerson University student centre by Snøhetta
Snøhetta has completed a student centre for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, featuring chamfered edges and a patterned glass facade (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta's new building for SFMOMA nears completion
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has released the first images of Snøhetta's near-complete extension building showing its striated facade and atrium. More
Snøhetta wins competition for cable car and Alpine viewing platform in Italy
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a pair of ring-shaped platforms linked by a cable car, which will offer expansive views of the Alps to residents and visitors in Bolzano, Italy. More
Snøhetta reveals design for Portland's first city market since 1942
Snøhetta has unveiled plans to build the first official market building in Portland, Oregon, for over 70 years. More
Snøhetta team to design river walk next to America's second largest waterfall
Architecture and landscape firm Snøhetta has been appointed to develop plans for a new public access route along Willamette Falls in Oregon, the second largest waterfall in the US (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta designs new buildings for reopening of Swarovski's crystal theme park
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a series of new structures including a glass play tower with a faceted facade, as part of an expansion to the Swarovski Kristallwelten attraction in Austria (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta designs new visual identity for Norway's national parks
Architecture and design studio Snøhetta has developed a new graphic identity for Norway's 44 national parks, featuring a logo designed to look like a doorway on a hillside (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta and SANAA share first place in Budapest museum contest
Norwegian firm Snøhetta and Japanese studio SANAA have been awarded joint first place in a competition to design one of the five new museums planned for Budapest's City Park (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta designs a new kitchen for The French Laundry in Napa Valley
Snøhetta has unveiled plans to build a new kitchen for The French Laundry – a prestigious California restaurant that is often listed as one of the best in the world. More
Brooklyn warehouse overhauled by Snøhetta to create art studio for painter José Parlá
Snøhetta has renovated a Brooklyn warehouse to create a studio for Cuban-American artist José Parlá, whose murals adorn the lobbies of One World Trade Center and the Barclays Center (+ slideshow). More