Congratulations to this autumn's winners of AHO WORKS AWARDS!

AHO WORKS AWARDS is an award ceremony to celebrate the studio and diploma projects that have excelled at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). The award is presented every semester.

Teachers at AHO nominate candidates for the awards, and then the jury and sponsors evaluate the projects. The very best projects in each category receive awards and are celebrated with a formal ceremony.

Here is an overview of all the awards and winners:

Prize: Excellence in Architectural Writing

Sponsor: Pax
Winner: Vilde Gimming
Project: “Postcard Perspectives”


 

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Prize: Climate Shifts

Sponsor: Skift
Winner: Tomine Furelid
Project: “Choreographing Natural Processes: interplay with natural processes to create land for nesting birds in Longyearbyen’s delta.”


 

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Prize: Interaction design

Sponsor: Bekk
Winners: Johanna Forss and Tianyi Shi
Project: “Bortenfor kysten”


 

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Prize: FutureBuilt

Sponsor: FutureBuilt
Winners: Sherina Jhunjhnuwala, Hedda Sofie Helgesen and Nichakan Srimaung
Project: “Connecting Groruddalen Sustainable Architecture and Urban Studies”


 

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Prize: Industrial design

Sponsor: K8 Industridesign
Winner: Shanna Agatha Boot


 

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Prize: Excellence in Professionalism

Sponsor: Arkitektbedriftene
Winners: Lorenz Bischof, Nikolai Mathisen and Andrin Alpiger
Project: “Crematorium Langøyene - Oslo Fjord”


 

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Prize: Prize for service design

Sponsor: NoA Ignite
Winners: First-semester design GK1 (group project)
Project: «Futti Krutti Nabolagsfestival”


 

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Prize: Excellence in the use of steel

Sponsor: Norsk Stålforbund
Winners: Jonas Lødemel Bråthen and Madeleine Haaland 
Project: “Densifying a garden suburb: a re-imagining of the single house car garage”


 

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Prize: Excellence in the use of concrete

Sponsor: BetongFokus
Winners: Hauk Hilde Haslum and Karoline Manvik Mathisen
Project: “Inhabiting the plinth: Densification at the intersection of infrastructure and the protected wooden house settlement of Ekebergskrenten”


 

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Prize: Prize for complexity and holistic approach

Sponsor: Halogen
Winners: Systems-oriented design (group project)
Project: “Barnevernet”


 

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Prize: Excellence in the use of timber

Sponsor: TreFokus
Winner: Brage Banken Lervåg
Project: “Book exchange”


 

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Prize: Strategic use of design

Sponsor: Forte Digital
Winner: Mathilde Nissen
Project: “Modular Clothing”


 

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Prize: Excellence in the use of glass

Sponsor: Arkitektur- and designhøgskolen i Oslo
Winners: Nora Bull Langehaug and Astri Sunde Brynildsrud


 

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Prize: Material exploration and aesthetic experience

Sponsor: Designit
Winner: Helene Aagaard Evensen
Project: “Waitzer slide”


 

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Prize: Urban ecology

Sponsor: Arkitektur-og designhøgskulen i Oslo
Winner: Yme Seglsten Thompson


 

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Prize: OBOS prize for excellence in residential Architecture

Sponsor: OBOS
Winners: Kristin Lauvdal and Maja Stenøien


 

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Prize: Best design diploma

Sponsor: Arkitektur- og designhøgskulen i Oslo
Winner: Carl Magnus Traberg
Project: “Digital Introspection”


 

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Prize: Best landscape architecture diploma

Sponsor: Arkitektur-og designhøgskulen i Oslo
Winner: Hsin Lu
Project: “The Montane Ethnobotanical Garden - Symbiosis on a Subtropical Island”