GROHE Magazine 17 The architecture of the Cathedral of the Northern Lights echoes the Aurora Borealis in its design steel is contrasted with this very nice lush glass el ement Working with a contrasting set of materials is also a very Scandinavian approach It continues inside the building where we applied concrete and raw wooden elements G Scandinavian architecture is also known for being in tune with nature Two of your recently conceived projects the Cathedral of the Northern Lights in Alta Norway and the New Correctional Facility in Nuuk Greenland are both located in remote Arctic loca tions Even though completely different in use how are they similar in their approach KHJ In Scandinavia we are very keen on light because we don t have so much We play with light and na ture in our buildings as part of our design approach For all projects but particularly for competitions it is important to create some artistic point of view and storytelling to explain where the design came from In both projects we used the Nordic light as a metaphor For the cathedral and the prison it was important that the buildings capture light A major reference for that was Alvar Aalto s pavilion for the 1939 New York World s Fair where he created a wall of small wooden lamellas In the case of the cathe dral the artistic statement was already reflected in its name right from the beginning We created the spiral shape to underline the idea of light going from the earth to the sky

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