NEWS & ARTICLES

Date: 16 April 2026, 5.00 pm Venue: POETIC Vågeveien 7 – Loennechengården In Creative Talk #11, we welcome two of Norway’s most renowned photographers for an evening on light, darkness, presence, and the power of photography. With Arne Beck and Ketil Born, we invite you to a conversation between two strong photographic perspectives, two distinct temperaments, and a shared interest in how images shape the way we see the world. Arne Beck is a photographer, neuroaesthetician,

We are strengthening the foundation of POETIC Elias B. Wolden joins POETIC as Systems Architect. With a background in economics from BI and studies in informatics, Elias brings a combination of financial understanding and system thinking that is highly relevant for how we are developing the studio.

Abstract This article proposes an alternative architectural genealogy in which the development of modern and contemporary architecture is traced not through stylistic shifts, but through changing conceptions of human experience. Beginning with montage theory in early twentieth-century art and film, the article follows a trajectory through movement-based architecture, event-oriented spatial practice, and contemporary explorations of perception. Drawing on the work of Malevich,

POETIC is proud to moderate the panel discussion Safeguarding the Public Realm – Our Shared Responsibility , presented as part of the IN2IT Festival. This conversation shifts attention away from individual events and institutions towards cultural infrastructure : the long-term structures that enable a society to function, even under pressure. The Opera in Kristiansund, Kristiansund Kunsthall, Nordmørsmusea, and Nordic Light will come together to discuss the responsibility cul

Tara Eliassen Kongsvik is a fifth-year Master’s student at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and joins POETIC with a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford Brookes University (RIBA Part 1). Her work is characterised by a strong material and model-based approach, where physical making functions as an investigative and spatial tool within the architectural process. In the autumn of 2024, Tara worked as a student assistant on AHO’s centenary exhibition dedicated to Profess

Our Principal Architect Hans-Petter Bjørnådal  will serve as a juror for Rome Rain Rooms, an international architecture competition exploring how rain can become an active and meaningful part of public space. Set in Rome — a city shaped by water, stone, and time — the brief invites small, reversible architectural interventions that collect rainwater and engage the city during moments of rainfall. We are grateful to Buildner for the trust, and pleased to be part of an internat

POETIC has delivered the design drawings for a sculptural bench for the outdoor areas of Innlandet Primary School  in Kristiansund, Norway. The project has been developed in close dialogue with the school and its users, through meetings with Inger Endreseth , Headteacher of Innlandet Primary School, alongside Eigunn Stav Sæthre  and Wiam Alaridi . In addition, POETIC conducted workshops with the pupils, allowing children’s perspectives, movements and ways of inhabiting space

NORDMØRSPOSTEN, 24 January 2026 Odd Inge Teige – Desk Editor, Journalist and Photographer At quay level in Kristiansund, on the ground floor of Loennechengården at Vågeveien 7, architect Hans-Petter Bjørnådal has his base. From here, with views across the harbour basin, he runs the architectural studio POETIC. Above him, on the building’s second floor, new offices for creative industries have gradually taken shape. Among them is designer Christine Blass — Bjørnådal’s wife and

Neuroarchitectural landscapes at Omagata 110C POETIC has won the architectural competition to transform Omagata 110C, an existing office building in Kristiansund, Norway. The project proposes a recalibration of the contemporary workplace through spatial principles grounded in landscape, human perception, and duration, rather than efficiency alone. Set within a Nordic architectural context where climate, light, and restraint act as formative conditions, the project understands

Date: 30 January 2026 – 17:00 Venue: POETIC Vågeveien 7 – Loennechengården Creative Talk #10 places architecture at the centre of public discourse. On this evening, POETIC presents its professional foundation, core values, and selected projects to an audience in Kristiansund. Hans-Petter Bjørnådal is an MNAL-certified architect, founder and Creative Director of POETIC, an award-winning architecture studio based in Kristiansund. The studio has received international recognit

POETIC wins BIG SEE Architecture Award 2026 We are pleased to announce that POETIC has received the BIG SEE Architecture Award 2026 for Folkeparken Primary School . The BIG SEE Awards highlight architecture distinguished by design excellence, cultural awareness, and long-term societal value. The recognition acknowledges a project that approaches learning as a spatial, embodied, and social experience—where architecture, landscape, and everyday life are conceived as an integr

Architecture that resonates Something happens the moment you enter a room. Not always. Not everywhere. But when it does, it is unmistakable. The body responds before the mind is ready: the shoulders lower, or tense; the breath hesitates, then finds a slower rhythm. Attention shifts, without instruction. You realise — slightly too late — that you are already involved. This is where architecture begins. Not in ideas, not in images, not in explanation — but in encounter. Most bu