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1st PRIZE – ”SPINE (BROKEN)”
Authors: Javier ‘Mukta’ Gonzalez, Lorenz Becker, Hauke Schmidt (Chile/Germany)

2nd PRIZE – “RIPPLES”
Authors: Mariel Bacigalupe, Stephanie Fell (Chile)

3rd PRIZE – “CUBE ON THE MOON”
Authors: Ahmed Mansour , Ahmed El-Kafrawy, Donia Medhat (Egypt)

3rd PRIZE - “1 SMALL STEP FOR MAN, A GIANT LEAP EVEN FOR 2 HAMSTERS WORKING AS A TEAM”
Authors: Frode Ljøkjell, Vidar Laksfors (Norway)

Honorary mention 1 - “WP-REH”
Authors: Carl-Johan Rosén , Johan Ekenberg, Evelina Hartwig (Sweden)

Honorary mention 2 - “CRUSHING WAVE”
Authors: Eugene Boyle, Barry Dorgan, Shane O’Neill (Ireland)

Honorary mention 3 - “SHORT CIRCUIT”
Authors: Jes Saatterup, Sune Rasmussen, Kristoffer Vieth (Denmark)   

Congratulations to all of you!

The Bergen International Wood Festival 2010 has started and the construction site is filled with all the contestants and, er..wood, of course!

The weather is always an exciting factor when organizing something in Bergen, and so far it has been quite nice.

The first images from the freshly started projects have just been published, you will find them here.

The Bergen International Wood Festival 2010 is coming up!

We will soon be back with more information regarding application deadline and such.

Also, this website is being updated to be ready for this years festival.

1st PRIZE – ”TWISTED TREESOME”
Authors: TEAM SPIRIT, Norway
(Hogne Øye Sætre, Ann Kristin Einarsen, Kristina Alme)

2nd PRIZE – “HVOR ER FRØET?”
Authors: VOITT AJAT, Norway
(Erlend Bleken, Anders Berg, Mari Ekstrand, Eli Therese Petersen)

3rd PRIZE – “3 MINUS 1″
Authors: 3 ER 1 FOR MYE, Norway
(Hilde Danielsen, Gunvor Tangrand, Karen Skog)

Honorary mention – “WALLED WOOD”
Authors: 2½ MANN, Denmark/Norway
(Mikkel Schebye Johnsen, Eirik Gulsrud Johnsen, Absalon Windeløv)               

Congratulations to all of you!

Today is the last day of the festival. There will be a formal reception at Schøtstuene Restaurant, hosted by The Municipality of Bergen, where the announcement of winners and celebration will take place! 

We hope that all the visitors have enjoyed their stay in Bergen, their working sessions at the Bergenhus Fortress, the social gatherings in the evenings, and, least to forget: the amazingly nice weather this week!

May the best team win!

There will be a dinner this evening at 19:00 at KHiB (Bergen National Academy of The Arts) for the participants of BIWF2008. Welcome!

After dinner each team presents their concept and ideas about their project, approx. 5 minutes each.

Bergen Architect Association 100 Years Anniversary

As part of this celebration people are invited to a walkthrough of the BIWF construction area at Bergenhus Fortress. Information and guidance will be given by the “BIWF-in charge” Petter Bergerud. 

Tonight’s dinner is at Hordaland County Governor at 7 p.m.
Following this reception the group is invited to visit Sagen,
an old saw-mill on Bergen’s mountainside on the way to Mount Fløyen.

All the teams have now arrived in spite of the industrial action at our airports.

We have 17 brilliant teams, and their constructions are beginning to take shape at the Bergen Castle (Bergenhus Festning).

Our news can be downloaded as RSS feed, so feel free to subscribe. The feed can also be read on portable devices that support web feeds.

Day one is already over, and most of the participants have arrived and started their work. (Check out “BIWF LIVE” on this website.) Unfortunately, due to strike on Bergen Airport two teams were delayed, but hopefully they will be in Bergen by tomorrow. The weather is fairly nice, at least no rain so far, but the temperature is not that high.

We will try to make daily updates here in the news section, as well as in the “live” section, where there will be published images from the ongoing projects.