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012.09 Drive-In Industries by Fredrik Haukeland » Yanko Design

Feb 20, 2009
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012.09 Drive-In Industries by Fredrik Haukeland » Yanko Design

http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/02/20...

Drammen is a city and municipality in Norway (look it up!) which is along the 1,890 km (1,174 mi) long European Route E18. The city of Drammen has been, of recent years, a relatively popular place for the cars; its city center having been burdened by heavy traffic until the installation of the E18 bridge. Designer Fredrik Haukeland plans to capitalize on this situation with an intuitive I.D. project: “a leisure park for car fanatics.”

020.08 Buildings: Norwegian Ski Hotel Placed Right On The Slopes

Feb 7, 2008
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020.08 Buildings: Norwegian Ski Hotel Placed Right On The Slopes

http://gizmodo.com/353600/norwegian-s...

io9 found this great concept by Norweigian design architects BIG which places a hotel against the side of a mountain with the idea that hotel patrons can finish off a ski or snowboard run by riding directly to their floor. The hotel looks absolutely epic, and I like the way the wavy lines of the hotel match the tracks left on snow by skis and snowboards. [BIG via io9]