Steven Holl, Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy, Norway
By Roberto Lucchese
Photo by Iwan Baan
The Knut Hamsun Center, located in Hamarøy, Norway and designed by Steven Holl Architects, opened to the public in 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Knut Hamsun’s birth. Dedicated to Norway’s most inventive twentieth-century writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2700-square-meter center is located above the Arctic Circle by the village of Presteid of Hamarøy, near the farm where Hamsun grew up. The building includes exhibition areas, a library and reading room, a café, and an auditorium for museum and community use.Read more