Kjetil Trædal Thorsen receives FRAME’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
Snøhetta’s co-founder has been recognized by FRAME for his transdisciplinary approach, combining architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, product design and graphic and digital design to create spaces truly in conversation with their surroundings.
The award will be handed out at a ceremony in Hong Kong on Thursday 24 October, where Snøhetta’s Managing Director for Asia, Richard Wood, will accept the award on Thorsen's behalf.
Thorsen’s achievements in transdisciplinary architecture, energy-positive constructions, and unwavering commitment to holistic sustainability demonstrate the merits behind his receipt of this award.
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“Most of us spend approximately 90 per cent of our lives indoors. Therefore, we believe that better spaces lead to better lives. If interiors help us to work, shop, relax and live better, they will make us happier and healthier,” FRAME states.
In an interview on frameweb.com, FRAME shares their verdict for naming Kjetil Trædal Thorsen as the winner of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award:
"A leader in energy-positive architecture, Thorsen and Snøhetta have been talking about – and acting on – the need to reduce the built environment’s impact on the natural one long before many others. As the urgent need for truly sustainable architecture only increases, we’ll continue to look to Snøhetta – and Thorsen – for inspiration."
Some of the projects highlighted by FRAME are the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Čoarvemátta - the new Sami cultural and educational hub in Kautokeino, the underwater restaurant Under, Beijing Library, and the Bolder cabins.
"I am excited that the FRAME Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes what we have been trying to promote and work on for the last 35 years. It is all about the collective effort, ways of working together across different professions, and concentrating on all aspects of sustainability. An award makes you look backward but mostly forward, encouraging future work," says Kjetil Trædal Thorsen.