Exciting news! Our team Leve og lære led by PIR2 Oslo is prequalified for the parallel assignment for the comprehensive development of the old Veterinary College for Oslobygg and Linstow. The purchase of the old Veterinary College is a major and important investment for both Oslo municipality and Linstow. The work with the parallel assignment will build on their high ambitions and goals, and will explore the possibilities of this central plot in Oslo. The project area covers about 20 hectares with approximately 56,000 square meters of existing buildings. Team Leve og lare is a collaboration between PIR2, Built, BRIQ, LOCAL, Growlab with INSAM, U-reist, Føreland consulting, Sustevo, Sustainable life, and strategic advisors from Aldring og Helse and the Verdighetsenteret. We look forward to taking on this incredibly exciting task in 2024 and are looking forward to an open exhibition in the spring! Photo: Hans O. Torgersen

Rana Municipality, already in the forefront of demographic shifts with more elderly population over 65 in average, is developing a strategy for future health and care services. This effort is part of LOCAL's ongoing work on aging Greymatter, addressing the anticipated needs arising from the growing number of residents over 65. Collaborating with Curve Studio, the Verdighetsenteret, Aldring og Helse, A/Stab and INSAM, this initiative includes exploring land and housing development for an age-friendly community over a 30 years perspective. This new study aims to create inclusive, activity-friendly environments for all ages.

Together with CURVE STUDIO, SGRAM & Bybonden i Bergen, we win the competition for a new multifunctional rooftop pavilion with productive gardens, maintaining the amazing views all around and celebrating the existing architecture of the Sølvberget cultural house.

Incredible and exciting news to announce we are part of the BIFF 2023! "Gråttgull" is featured in the BIFF+Byarkitekten program, and we're excited to showcase it! It will be screened at the Cornerteateret 23rd October 2023, alongside another short film on a similar theme "Where we grow older" by Daniel Schwartz. Anna Helle Valle, Bjart Nygaard, and Anne-Grete S-Eriksen are invited for a discussion before the movie. See you there!

Organised by members of the Union of Francophone Architects for Health, the fifth edition of the Health Architecture Days (JAS) will take place from 16th to 18th October 2023, at the Palais de l'Europe in Menton. Amidst modernizing health infrastructures and evolving techniques and technologies, the JAS event stands as an essential professional gathering dedicated to health and social-medical sectors. We are invited to present our ongoing work Greymatter, focusing on the significant role of seniors in urban city centers. Meet us Wednesday, 18th October 2023, at 09:45 AM in the Salle des Pays-Bas at the Palais de l'Europe in Menton.

Almene Boligdage brings together employees and elected officials from housing organizations throughout the country. In 2023, Almene Boligdage will take shape as a series of local events and will be rounded off with a grand finale at the Tivoli Hotel in Copenhagen on 30 September. We are honoured to present the work we are doing with LBF at this event.

On Wednesday, September 27, from 16:15 to 17:30, the award-winning documentary "Greymatter Bergen" by architectural office LOCAL will be showcased, exploring innovative placemaking solutions by seniors in Bergen. The film, a winner of the Cross Roads prize at the 2021 Biennale in Seoul, offers an optimistic perspective on aging and has been featured in several international film festivals. The screening will be followed by an interactive conversation discussing aging, community, and architectural innovations for health in Norway, Denmark, and France.

The renovation project spanning 5,500sqm in Montreuil (France) has commenced on-site. This comprehensive endeavor encompasses the revitalization of a five-story office building, the enhancement of common areas, an expansion of office space, and the addition of an accessible rooftop.

We are so happy to be included in the guideline for the use of Wood in Bergen prepared by the City architect of Bergen municipality. We believe in wood and CO2 neutral innovation for our future!

Come in and join us saturday 23rd of September for 12h to 17h to the open door of Ateliers in Bergen, organised by B-OPEN 2023. We will present our film-documentary Greymatter Bergen and our research project on intergenerational architecture and city renewal. Come say hello!

We are over the moon to open CFE office in Paris, our latest project. Check our website for more !

We are showing our film documentary on aging in Bergen at this year ArchFest, incredibly happy to be part of this event!

We are very much looking forward to Friday's urban development evening about Laksevåg out at Smien, where we will receive input from residents, property developers and the municipality!

The Greenstation project has won the prestigious Green GOOD DESIGN®️ Award 2023 in the category of Green Transportation for its innovative approach to sustainable energy infrastructure. The award recognizes LOCAL commitment to environmental responsibility and its significant contribution to sustainable architecture, landscape design, and urban planning.

“How can we facilitate such a change without losing the quality of the care and the social differ-ences just become increasingly bigger?” LOCAL office in Bergen. From left to right: Anna Helle-Valle, Anne-Grete Strøm Erichsen, Wolfgang Schmid, Tina Larsen and Sebastian von Hofacker

Echelle 1, incubator center for architects from EAVT Paris East, organized a 2 days seminar in Strasbourg to talk about different facets of our profession. LOCAL is part of the 2022-2023 winning office to have a place in this exciting program.

Birth rates are diminishing while the elderly population is growing. This new challenge will affect a lot of different sectors including housing markets, and we need to ask ourselves: How are we going to live together in the near future? Join us 5th of july!

After several months of innovating, conceptualising, and hard work among participants from all over the world, Landsbyggefonden (The National Building Fund) and our jury of experts can now reveal the selection of 4 ideas, that they think will succeed in turning residential areas into Neighbourhoods for Generations. “It was no easy task to pick just four winners.” Says head of jury, Christian Pagh, who is the director and chief curator of Oslo Architecture Triennale. “The best ideas are capable of creating new combinations from a neighbourhood’s different elements – the physical and social, the informal and institutional.” Landsbyggefonden had received 78 entries.

LOCAL was presenting its work at the ENSAAMA (aka Olivier de Serres) to future professionals in the design and creative field. We shared about our education and professional path, we presented projects build in timber and high-end details and we talked about growing old better.

Elderly wave in Bergen: The municipality is under pressure: - Must take action THINK NEWLY: The "elderly wave" of the future requires a different policy for the elderly than today. In Bergen, there will be more people over 65 than under 19 as early as 2035. Photo: Shad Madian / Dagbladet Marie Røssland - Published Thursday 19 January 2023

A discussion session about GRÅTTGULL and movie screening of the movie Greymatter Bergen is happening at DOGA as part of the Oslo Triennale 2022 programme. Jérome Picard from LOCAL would presenting and panel discussion is led by Silije Lockart.

Research laboratory of Dominique Perrault Architecture, and the INDIGO Group, world leader in parking and mobility, launched an international architecture competition on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. We were among special mentions which were announced at the awards ceremony on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at the TriPostal in Lille. More than 320 young architects from 64 nationalities registered and 34 projects from 10 countries were submitted.

During the NABO Kveld events in Bergen, our new film, will be premiered as part of the events of this year.

We are thrilled to announce that we are part of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 representing the city of Bergen with our pavilion and film documentary “Grey Matter Bergen” exploring urban and active aging in our beloved Fjord city.

Selected to present Grey Matter today and talk about age-friendly Urban strategy and our senior community as catalyst of our civic life. Design as expression of Culture(s) is taking into consideration the cultures we are inheriting from the past and which should be granted for the benefit of future generations, so intertwining past and future, tangible and intangible, innovation and tradition.

We are incredibly honored to be partner of this first edition of the Lahore Digital Festival and co-curate this event with an incredible team. 400 submissions, 75 artists selected, and numerous collectives and organisations. Lahore Digital Arts Festival (LDF) aims to celebrate the emerging digital culture of Pakistan by bringing together an international community of artists and audiences to explore the intersection of art, technology, and everything in-between.

LOCAL is runner-up Europan 15 ! “Grey matter” focuses on inter-generational living and empowering our seniors, around shared, self-managed and inclusive spaces, with the existing asset of the city. Associates: Matthieu Boustany, Benoist Desfonds, Elida Mosquera, Jerome Picard - Contributor: Peeraya Suphasidh