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Hølmebakk Øymo is the Oslo-based studio founded in 1990 by Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk and rebranded under its current name in 2024, after Elisabeth Øymo, partner since 2017, took over as managing director. The practice is known for a rigorous, site-specific approach that ranges from small chapels and summer houses to viewpoints along Norway’s National Tourist Routes, marrying tectonic precision with a deep sensitivity to landscape; qualities that have earned its drawings a place in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Norway and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt.
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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