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Steven Holl-Designed Knut Hamsun Center Opens in Norway
United States Architecture News - Jun 23, 2009 - 16:38 4182 views
The Knut Hamsun Center, located in Hamarøy, Norway and designed by Steven Holl Architects, will open to the public on August 4, 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Knut Hamsun`s birth. Dedicated to Norway`s most intentive twentieth-century writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2700-square-meter center is located above the Arctic Circle by the village of Presteid of Hamarøy, near the farm where Hamsun grew up. The building includes exhibition areas, a library and reading room, a cafe, and an auditorium for museum and community use.
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