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Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk is a Norwegian architect whose work threads buildings carefully into the landscape, from small chapels and viewpoints along Norway’s National Tourist Routes to civic and cultural buildings, through restrained, sculptural forms and an unusually attentive sense of material and detail. In 2024, his Oslo-based practice was rebranded as Hølmebakk Øymo, reflecting Elisabeth Øymo’s role as co-principal alongside him.
Bjerkebaek Visitors Center in Lillehammer is a museum threshold built at the edge of Sigrid Undset’s protected home and garden. Designed as a low linear structure between road and landscape…
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Kuberget II, “The Barn,” is a small residential building on Flakstadoya in Lofoten that reoccupies the footprint of a former farm barn, replacing its agricultural use with a compact dwelling…
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The project is the work of Oslo-based architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, whose practice, founded in 1990 and now operating as Hølmebakk Øymo AS with partner Elisabeth Øymo, has built a three-decade…
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Mortuary at Asker Crematorium is a compact funerary addition in Asker, Norway, designed by Carl-Viggo Holmebakk AS between 1999 and 2000. Organized as a tightly sequenced ensemble of ceremony room…
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