GAME PIECE BEACH SIDE – STRANDKANTEN (1998-)
Through the Game of Tromsø a low degree development industrial area, Strandkanten, was launched as a future dense urban housing area in close proximity to the city centre. Today, 10 years later, this is in the process of being realised.

”Experiment, transparency and resistance have yielded an incipient shape to what is coming. The question that now is being posed concerns the architectural project. To what extent are the developers interested in the continued experiment? How do the authorities organise their activities to achieve their objectives?  What is the ambition of the architects?  Resistance may arise in new guises, challenging or preventing a new unity from arising from the encounter between the incredible urban transformation and interesting architecture.”
Knut Eirik Dahl, Professor
Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Photos: Marius Fiskum and 70°N / Magdalena Haggärda