ERLEND BLAKSTAD HAFFNER & HÅKON MATRE AASARØD | NO
Fantastic Norway 

Fantastic Norway AS is an architectural studio founded in 2004 by Erlend Blakstad Haffner and Håkon Matre Aasarød. The initial ambition was to create an open, including and socially aware architectural practice and to re-establish the architect as an active participant and a constructor of society.

The studio is currently engaged with architecture and installations as well as mobilisation processes, development strategies and lecturing. 

Our clients span from local communities to private investors and public institutions. We primarily work in the field of culture, tourism and commercial building. In addition to traditional commissions we initiate projects ourselves and organize the financial and political anchoring of them.
We believe places are stitched together by the stories and lives of people living there. Every client is different; every place is in some way peculiar. We aim to embrace this fact and through dialogue transform it into story telling architecture.

Fantastic Norway received the Oscar Hansen prize “Architects of the Year” in 2005 in Bergen / Norway and won the “FAD medal of honour” for “best international practice” in Barcelona/Spain in 2007. Fantastic Norway was further shortlisted for „best young practice“ Norsk Form / Norwegian Ministry of Culture. 
The office exhibited at the architectural biennale in Venice at the international pavilion in 2008 and in the nordic pavilion in 2010.

 

http://www.fantasticnorway.no