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ties to the land and locality alike make
him a passionate advocate for both. In
bringing his clarity of vision and reverence
for originality to the project, the result is
a deeply authentic, organically drawn
architecture based on keeping things
simple and exploiting the scenery while
helping to preserve it. "Conserving the
site is a way to respect the fact that nature
precedes and succeeds man," Jensen
& Skodvin expressed in their program
notes. This is not just a poetic frame of an
enduring truth. It is the ethos that drives
the architecture—the foundation on which
it is built.
The architects employed a procession of
sustainable strategies in the construction
of the hotel. None more crucial to a
virtuous outcome than distributing the
individual dwellings— structures that are
s a thaw falls over the sublime
wilds of northwestern Norway,
a reawakened Valldal valley
reveals a an almost unfathomable
immensity: soaring mountains,
bright sky, and a frothing turquoise river
coursing through a canvas of green
tones and timber. This immaculate opus
represents a kind of clockwork that resets
itself to the tenor and splendors of a new
season, each more beguiling than the last.
One Nordic refuge is witness to it all—the
Landscape Juvet Hotel.
Set in a nature reserve, this prize-winning
pile by Norwegian architecture firm
Jensen & Skodvin is not a conventional
hotel. Nor would it be. Its owner, after all,
is not a conglomerate of homogenous
megaresorts, he is Norwegian Knut
Slinning, whose profound and abiding
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