Buildings that earn their place.
A small Oslo practice for houses, reuse, and public rooms — designed slowly, detailed obsessively, and built to outlast the people who commissioned them.
- 13
- Years in practice
- 64
- Built projects
- 11
- Awards & nominations
Built & building
Selected work
Services
What we take on
Residential
New houses, cabins, and apartment renovations — from first site walk to keys. Full architectural service through Norwegian planning and building permission.
Adaptive Reuse
Second lives for warehouses, barns, and postwar office stock. Condition surveys, heritage dialogue, and details that let old structure and new work read honestly side by side.
Cultural & Public
Libraries, galleries, chapels, and civic rooms — competition entries and direct commissions, delivered with acousticians and landscape architects we have worked with for a decade.
Feasibility Studies
A fixed-fee, four-week study of your site or building: massing options, planning risk, cost bands, and an honest recommendation — including, sometimes, not to build.
Interiors & Detailing
Built-in furniture, stairs, and joinery drawn at 1:1 for our own projects and, occasionally, for houses we admire but did not design.
The method
Eight people, one long table.
The atelier
Inside the atelier
The atelier was founded on a simple frustration: too many buildings designed by people who would never visit them twice. So we stayed small on purpose. Every commission — a timber house above a fjord, a 1907 grain warehouse turned library, a chapel forecourt in Bergen — is led by a founding partner and carried by the same team from feasibility to handover. We work in physical models before renderings, we specify materials we have held in our hands, and we show up on site every week until the scaffolding comes down. The work has been exhibited at the Oslo Architecture Triennale and built in four countries, but the method never changes: measure the place, listen longer than is comfortable, then draw.
Clients, on the record
“They spent a full day on our plot before drawing a single line, and it shows. The house sits in the landscape like it was always meant to be there — our neighbours ask who did it, then look slightly resigned when we tell them the waitlist.”
“Meridian took a condemned grain warehouse and gave our municipality a library people cross town for. On budget, on programme, and with a stubbornness about daylight that we are now grateful for.”
“The feasibility study was the best money we spent on the entire development. They told us plainly which half of our brief was a bad idea — then designed the other half beautifully.”
Practicalities
Before you write
Fees, timelines, and how a commission begins.
How does a project with the atelier begin?
With a conversation and a site visit — both free of charge. If we are a fit, we propose a fixed fee for the first phase and a realistic timeline in writing. We take on a limited number of new commissions each year, so early contact helps.
What do architectural services cost?
Feasibility studies are fixed-fee from 85,000 kr. Full services for houses typically run 10–14% of construction cost depending on complexity; reuse projects are quoted per phase after a condition survey. You will always have the number before we start drawing.
How long does a house take?
Plan on 8–12 months of design and permission, then 12–18 months of construction. Adaptive reuse varies more — heritage dialogue can add time, and we will tell you honestly where the risks sit before you commit.
Do you work outside Norway?
Yes, selectively. We have built in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Scotland, always in partnership with a local executive architect. Distance has never been the deciding factor; the site and the brief are.
Will a partner actually work on our project?
Always. Every commission is led by Sindre or Agnes from the first sketch onward, with the same project architect throughout. Nothing leaves the office that a partner has not drawn on.
New commissions
Bring us a site, a building, or a doubt
Tell us what you are weighing — a plot, a tired structure, an idea that will not leave you alone. We reply to every enquiry within three working days, with honest first thoughts.
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