Steven Holl Architects has received the 2010 North Norwegian Architecture Prize for the Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy, Norway.

The Prize is awarded annually to projects with special reference to, and significance for North Norwegian historical, cultural, economic and physical conditions.

Dedicated to Norway’s most renowned twentieth-century author, (and the 1920 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature no less) the center opened on August the 4th last year, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of Hamsun’s birth.

The 2,271 square metre, rampart-like tower is located close to the farm where the writer grew up, and includes exhibition areas, a library and reading room, a cafe and an auditorium.

Our congratulations the the team at Steven Holl.

Images Ernst Furuhatt & Steven Holl Architects.