Halvorsenn

About us / since 2011

We are eleven people, two dogs and one plotter that has never worked on a Monday.

Halvorsenn started in a borrowed room above a chandlery on Nøstegaten, with one commission and a shared opinion that most buildings try far too hard. Fourteen years later we are still on the same street, two doors down, and the opinion has not moved much either.

We are not interested in a house style. We are interested in what a place already is — the light it gets, the weather it takes, what people already do there when nobody is watching — and in adding as little as we can get away with.

Stairwell in raking light
The stair we keep photographing. Nobody remembers who built it.
Study wall
Study wall, second floor. Reordered every Friday.
  1. 11 people, and it stays that way and 2 dogs
  2. 14years on the same street
  3. 03competitions we still argue about

Come by. The coffee is bad but the view is not. — Ingrid & Tobias Halvorsenn