The team in our shared Norwegian office
A tree house by Østensjøvannet
Some photos of the landscaping project we completed two years ago close to Østensjø, a natural reserve in Oslo.
The central piece of this project was a staircase that dovetailed the different exterior spaces around a private house, overlooking the lake from a steep rock face. Spiralling among the rocks covered with lush vegetation, this timber stair also doubles as an observation tower and secret hiding “tree house” for the children.
Photography: Colosseum Mann hospital, by Montaag
Some images from my photoshoot of the Colosseum Mann hospital, in Oslo, recently redesigned by the very talented team at Montaag, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Norway and California.
Photography: Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Some images from my photoshoot of the office interior at the Nordic Film & TV Fond in Oslo, freshly redesigned by Kubik Interiørarkitekter.
Photos of Mission Control
Some photos of our new experimental micro-office Mission Control, in all its broom-clad splendour!
Photoshoot: Holbergsgate 21
Some images from my photo session at Kubik’s latest interior design for Oculus, in Oslo.
Photography: Akersbakken 12
A photoshoot of Kubik's latest interior design, on Oslo's riverside.
Photography: Kubik's Nedre slottsgata
A new photoshoot forKubik Interiør Arkitekter: a newly redesigned staircase in Oslo's city centre.
Photography: UGG showroom
I have just completed another photoshoot with interior architects Kubik, this time to photograph their recent refurnishing of a showroom for the uber-trendy shoe designer UGG, in Oslo.
Photography: Kubik's new office for Norman & Co
Kubik Interiørarkitekter — the talented interior architects with whom we are sharing an office space in Oslo — asked me to take photos of their freshly completed new interior for Norman & Co, Norway's oldest law firm, in Oslo's exclusive Akerbrygge neighbourhood.
Here are some of my shots, trying to capture Kubik's delicate contrast of warm materials and cool light...
“Photos taken brilliantly, in all aspects of the word!
Nice, precise, detailed and beautifully captured with brilliant colours. We will definitely ask 2hD again to photograph our interior projects!”
Photography: Sykkelhotell, by Various Architects
On my way back from a site visit in Eidsvoll, I did a pitstop at Lillestrøm station to take some photos of the new bicycle hotel designed by our fellow office workers Various Architects, who I collaborated with on several projects and competitions. A beautiful little building with a restrained, almost Japanese-like, palette of materials and a very nice sense of scale. Here are a few of my shots.
Ooo-Ya-Tsu performance at La Malterie
Some photos from our latest public performance of Ooo-Ya-Tsu, at La Malterie.
Musician Olivier Durteste (left) composing a live soundscape, as I (right) recompose the digital collage projected on the paper canvas in front of him.
Yves Sabourin, during the public discussion after our live performance
Special thanks to our guest Yves Sabourin — art curator for the French Ministry of Culture and former master-weaver — for his inspiring speech after our performance, comparing our work in Ooo-Ya-Tsu with the luxuriant garden motives of traditional Persian tapestries...
Trapeze off a balloon
We were contacted this summer by a French circus collective to develop a large-scale inflatable venue. One of the artists, Katrin Wolf, sent us this photo of her former trapeze act off a helium balloon. Lovely!
Photo by Katrin Wolf
Gentlemen
Public toilet sign at the Park Hill Estate, Sheffield, designed in 1961 by Ivor Smith & Jack Lynn.
A photographic dialogue
To keep our photographic juices flowing, Tom and I started a photographic dialogue more than a year ago. The rule of the dialogue was simple: one at a time, we regularly post images on Flickr, responding to each other's image in some way — form, light, colour, theme, etc. Only two constraints: 1. photos must be chronological and 2. we don't discuss our photos — we just respond with another photo and never explain the response...
Thirteen months later, the photographic dialogue is taking some interesting turns...
We wanted to display this dialogue on our website, but our Content Management System (TextPattern) did not allow this straight out-of-the-box. No problem: we resorted to our proven mashing approach to web design...
Both Tom and I were already using Flickr to share our photos, so it made sense to use this existing service to manage the images and display them on our website in a dialogue format. We did this by creating a private group on Flickr to which we posted our photos, and automatically pulled these images to our website with a few lines of code, using the powerful Flickr API and the PHPFlickr library.
