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Snøhetta’s Kjetil Thorsen judges Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Snøhetta’s Kjetil Thorsen judges Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Snøhetta’s Kjetil Thorsen, founding partner of one of the world’s leading architecture practices on sustainabilty, joins the Wallpaper Design Awards 2021 judging panel
Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen photographed for our February 2021 issue (W 262) via Zoom.
Photography: Larry Fink
As a founding partner of Snøhetta, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen has had a hand in some of the finest contemporary cultural buildings. From Oslo Opera House, which rises from the fjord like a glacier, to the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, which glistens under the desert sun like giant pebbles (W 212), and to the International Cave Art Centre in Lascaux, carved into the landscape like a ravine (W 216), his architecture takes on imaginative forms that are sensitive to their surroundings and conducive to human interaction. ‘I