Holmen Industrial Area in Vesterålen, Norwegian Harbor Work Building, Norwegian Architecture, Images
Holmen Industrial Area in Vesterålen, Norway
Harbor Building Development, Northern Norway ? design by Snøhetta
13 Nov 2018
Holmen Industrial Area
Architects: Snøhetta
Location: Vesterålen, Norway
Snøhetta Completes the Holmen Industrial Area
On behalf of shipowner Holmøy Maritime, Snøhetta has designed Holmen Industrial Area, a highly sophisticated and colorful 6,000 square meter fishing facility situated on the eastern side of Sortlandssundet in the archipelago of Vesterålen in Northern Norway.

By assembling all employees and top-notch facilities on the same site, this bold new facility ensures the regions continued international success within Norway?s second largest industry ? an industry worth over one billion dollars annually.
The new facility intelligently blurs the distinction between the rawness of the fishing industry with a more polished corporate allure by subtly merging Holmøy Maritime?s trawling, fish farming and fish processing business and the company?s headquarters into four, distinctive buildings.

The buildings also include a guest house that functions as a home away from home for employees that need to rest their eyes between shifts at sea or on land.

Oriented toward a first-class 126-meter-wide deep-water harbor plunging into the Norwegian Sea, the buildings are all organized and dimensioned to facilitate for activities at sea and on the m...