The Two Seasons Hotel project is currently underway in Stavanger, Norway. It is scheduled to be completed by the end of this summer.

The project is located along a busy street in the Stavanger City center. Two hundred and fifty rooms float in a ribbon configuration above an existing parking garage. Lifting the hotel rooms from the street front enables us to secure privacy and quiet for the visitor and create a living ground floor activated by shops, a restaurant and cafe, as well as the lobby. The ribbon mediates a potentially problematic context by hovering closest to the ground adjacent to an old Stavanger neighborhood and by lifting dramatically when facing a nine story apartment tower.

This weekend, on the 13th and 14th of March, the International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup Nordic will be held at Holmenkollen with over 30,000 people expected to attend. The jump is to be held as a trial test before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships next year in Oslo, 24th of February – 6th March 2011.

On the 3rd of February, the International Ski Federation (FIS) certified the New Holmenkollen Fyr (HS134) that the facility passed all technical and safety standards required for international ski jumping competitions.

Though the ski jump is not fully completed, plans are being met and carried through as scheduled. On the 3rd of March, Annette Sagen became the first official ski jumper to jump 106.5 meters during the opening ceremony of the Skijump, which set a new Holmenkollen jump record. From the 20 ski jumpers taking part of the opening ceremony, Rune Vetla, a local ski jumper had the longest jump at 141 meters, breaking and currently holding the record at Holmenkollen!

After this weekend’s event, JDS Architects will continue the remaining work on the completion plans until 2011. At the end of 2010, visitors can enjoy a bar at 418 meters above sea level and get the experience of looking down the in-run like a ski jumper. At the top of the of the 69 meter inclined-cantilever tower, a 110m2 plateau will reveal an amazing view over the city of Oslo and its fjords.

photography by Håkon Mosvold Larsen/Scanpix via Aftenposten.no

Anette Sagan has been announced today to be the first jumper on the New Holmenkollen Ski jump.   The jump will take place at the opening ceremony this Wednesday, March 3rd between 19.00 and 20.00.

Read more here, here and here [Norwegian text].

INVITASJON TIL

TORSDAG 25.FEBRUAR LANSERER VI KONSEPTET

SUCCESSFUL LIVING

FROM DIESEL

WITH MOROSO AND FOSCARINI

- en kjempespennende møbel- og lampekolleksjon

utviklet av motegiganten Diesel

i samarbeid med merkvarene Moroso (møbler) og Foscarini (belysning).

I tillegg får vi besøk av arkitektene Andrew Griffin og Kamilla Heskje

fra det internasjonale arkitektkontoret JDS Architects,

som bl.a.. er ansvarlig for den store Holmenkollen utbyggingen

Et tiltak, i disse OL-tider, for de som er mer interessert

i de omkringliggende fasiliteter, enn i selve sporten…

As the Holmenkollen jump nears completion, the International Ski Federation (FIS) certified the 134 long ski jump last week! This means that it meets all technical and safety standards for international ski jump competitions.

The trial championship will be on the 12^th – 14^th of March.

Scroll down for some of the latest construction photos of the Holmenkollen ski jump, the exterior metal mesh facade is installed all the way to the top!

The new Holmenkollen Ski Jump game is now available to play on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

“Holmenkollen Ski Jump is an addicting ski jumping game.  Easy to play, really hard to master!  The game is situated in the new Holmenkollen, Norway’s national ski jumping arena in Oslo.  Jump as far as possible with maximum style!” -from Agens, iTunes App Store.

The game was just released today and is available on the iTunes App Store.  Click here for the link.

You can also compete against your friends on Facebook with the Holmenkollen Facebook app.  Click here for the link.

JDS Architects is proud to announce the release of the new Holmenkollen Ski Jump Game available on visitnorway.com – test your hopping skills by clicking here.

Made possible by:

www.visitoslo.com, www.agens.no, www.norwegian.no, www.colorline.no, www.skiforeningen.no, www.oslo2011.no, www.jdsa.no

Screenshots below.

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JDS ARCHITECTS invites you to join us and celebrate the release of our new book, AGENDA, next Saturday, November 28th at the (soon-to-be-completed) Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, Norway.

We will serve champagne and Julien De Smedt will be signing copies of AGENDA.

Saturday, 28 November 2009 from 14.00-16.00
@ Holmenkollen Ski Jump – Visitor’s Centre [map]

You are welcome to bring guests, but please RSVP to press@jdsarchitects.com with the names of those you
wish to bring.

The Holmenkollen Ski Jump is on its way for completion by 2011.  Here is a nice little morphing of  the current construction site to the completed design for our impatient readers.

The first issue of CONDITIONS magazine is now available.

Check out their site HERE

The first issue is dedicated to “Strategy for Evolution”. It includes contributors from different fields of knowledge, giving multiple interpretations of what a strategy for evolution could be. The content is exclusively developed for CONDITIONS and among the contributors for the first issue are Winy Maas, Lars Ramberg, Bernt Stilluf Karlsen, Markus Miessen and Fernando Donis. The magazine opens up for the new and unknown voices in a balanced mix with the established.

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