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SCANDINAVIAN TRAVELER | MEETS | NORM ARCHITECTS<br />
WHERE EXCELLENCE<br />
IS THE NORM<br />
There isn’t a handbook for the New Scandinavia<br />
design movement. But if there were, Norm Architects<br />
would be on the cover<br />
By Emma Olsson Photos by Jakob Kirk<br />
I<br />
f Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen had to name one building<br />
he would have liked to have designed, he’d<br />
choose Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Cemetery in Italy.<br />
It’s a manifestation of water and concrete, originally<br />
created for a local industrialist.<br />
“It’s highly ornamented, which makes it<br />
different from what we’d normally do. Scarpa<br />
used simple materials and made something<br />
wonderfully complex out of them. A complex<br />
building can easily become ugly, but the Brion<br />
Cemetery is very poetic and offers so many different<br />
spatial elements,” says the co-founder of Norm<br />
Architects.<br />
After a pause, he continues: “It’s something we<br />
could never do, and it’s easy to become envious of<br />
something that’s out of reach.”<br />
Norm Architects was established in 2008 by<br />
Bjerre-Poulsen and his friend, Kasper Rønn, and in<br />
2013, Linda Korndal came onboard. Together they<br />
have worked on everything from private residences<br />
and design to branding, photography, and store<br />
design.<br />
Jonas ⇨<br />
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DECEMBER 2014 | SCANDINAVIAN TRAVELER
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