The pentagonal tourist cabins of Tungestølen provide a sheltered view of western Norway's spectacular mountain scenery. Opened in 2019, the Tungestølen mountain cabin designed by Norwegian ...

Few things are more typically Norwegian than resting in a wooden cabin part-way through a long hike or cross-country skiing tour. There are many thousands of cabins all over Norway, ranging from ...

How do you squeeze a luxury hotel resort into a cabin? Norway’s Fordypningsrommet, on the remote northern island of Fleinvær, has come up with the answer — “deconstructing” everything you’d want from ...

In 1968 my Norwegian-heritage parents walked into the 1922 Norway pine cabin called Solbakken (Sunny Hill) on the shore of Woman Lake and knew they'd found their summer retirement home. My fisherman ...

Norwegian architecture firm Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter (JVA) recently completed a cabin situated some 1,200 m (3,937 ft) above sea level in Norway's rugged Okstindan mountain range. The Rabot Tourist ...

The Søgne Cabin is a modest structure on a spectacular site. Designed as a weekend retreat for an Oslo-based couple, the 100 sq m coastal cabin had to abide by strict laws restricting excessive ...

A large, angular window cuts through the otherwise traditional form of this timber cabin in Norway, designed by local architecture studio Rever & Drage. The building was designed for the owner of an ...

Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter has built a wooden cabin in Telemark, Norway, which has an accessible stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint and winter ski jump. Named Cabin Thunder Top, the triangular ...

Simone Abram has received funding from Leeds Beckett University where she holds a Readership. Mountain cabins and seaside houses are part of the Scandinavian dream. Europeans are right to envy their ...