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Today recognized internationally, based in Oslo and in New York, the agency asserts itself from 1989 with the project prize-winner of the Library Alexandrine. This circular monolithic building, delivered in 2001, inaugurates a plural practice where the traditional techniques have a dialogue with the sharpest digital procedures of design and manufacturing. King Abdulaziz Center's complex and fluid geometries for (now) World Culture or of the center of observation of wild reindeers Tverrfjelhytta (2009-2011) are of a widened and including understanding of an architectural, transferable landscape of the urban scale in that of the object. The tens of developed projects aim at an integration of the architecture at its site which is of a mutual hybridization, capable of informing the program and the uses. The artificial topography of Norwegian National Operated and Ballet (200-2008) or the confusion of the International Center of Parietal Art (in class) Montignac Lascaux with the surrounding relief proceeds of the same will to operate globally, on the scale of the environment.