Halden & Roe Moves Its Whole Studio Into a Former Ferry Terminal
The Oslo practice traded a city-centre loft for a timber shed on the water, and kept the departure boards.
By Jazz Monroe
Halden & Roe spent a decade in a fourth-floor loft above a shoe shop. This spring the twenty-two person studio moved its desks, its model shop and its archive into a ferry terminal that had stood empty since the crossing was cancelled.
The building is a single timber shed with a mezzanine along one side. The studio kept the departure boards and now uses them to post deadlines.
In practice
The model shop sits where the ticket hall used to be, so the noise stays on the ground floor and the drawing desks get the light from the water.
We wanted a room where everyone can see what everyone else is making.
Ingrid Halden, co-founder
