Nordvik Architects
Architecture Practice Site
Nordvik Architects is the website of an Oslo practice working across public and cultural commissions. It is built on a single decision: the buildings are the argument, and everything else on the page is in service of looking at them.
Designed & developed by Entrovix
- Year
- 2025
- Discipline
- ArchitectureArt DirectionEngineering
- Services
- Art DirectionContent StrategyUX/UI DesignFront-end Engineering
- Built with
- Next.jsPayload CMSCloudflare ImagesVercel
Architecture & urbanism — Oslo
Buildings that answer to
their landscape first.
A practice of eighteen working across public, cultural and residential commissions in Norway and northern Europe — from competition drawings to site.
Sundvollen PavilionBuskerud2025
Havnelageret RehousingOslo2024
Bergen Maritime InstituteBergen2023
Tromsø Reading RoomsTromsø2022
The Challenge
Photographed well, presented badly
Practices commission architectural photography at considerable expense and then publish it in a grid of thumbnails, cropped square, three to a row. The scale that the photographer spent a day capturing is the first thing the layout removes.
The second problem is language. Practice statements drift into abstraction the moment they are written for everybody, and a page that could describe any studio persuades nobody to call this one.
The Approach
How we worked
Give the building its height
Project imagery runs full height rather than boxed into a card. A building photographed at scale should be met at scale, which is what the whole layout is arranged around.
An index, not a gallery
Work is listed the way a practice actually catalogues it — name, place, year — so a visitor scanning for a school in Bergen finds it without opening six pages.
Say what the practice refuses
The statement names the kind of commission the studio takes and the way it works. Specific enough to exclude somebody is the only kind of positioning that persuades anybody.
Remove the colour
Concrete grey and near-black throughout, so the only colour on any page is the sky in the photograph. An accent palette here would compete with the work for attention.
The Solution
A page that gets out of the way
The site opens with the practice statement set large on the left and a building running the full height of the window on the right, captioned with its project and place — no headline over the image, no overlay, no carousel.
Beneath the statement, the project index lists the work by name, location and year. From arrival to enquiry there is nothing on the page that is not either a building or a way to reach the studio.
Architecture & urbanism — Oslo
Buildings that answer to
their landscape first.
A practice of eighteen working across public, cultural and residential commissions in Norway and northern Europe — from competition drawings to site.
Sundvollen PavilionBuskerud2025
Havnelageret RehousingOslo2024
Bergen Maritime InstituteBergen2023
Tromsø Reading RoomsTromsø2022
Inside the product
What it actually does
Every Screen
One product, whatever it is opened on
The phone layout is not the desktop one squeezed down. Density, hit areas and reading order are decided per screen, and the interface keeps its meaning at both ends.
Capability
What we brought to Nordvik Architects
The same services are available on their own — each one links to what it involves, how it runs and what you get.
Built with
- Next.js
- Payload CMS
- Cloudflare Images
- Vercel
Disciplines
Architecture · Art Direction · Engineering
The Outcome
What it settled
- Buildings are met at the scale they were photographed
- Work is catalogued by name, place and year rather than gridded
- The statement is specific enough to exclude the wrong enquiry
- No accent colour anywhere competes with the photography
That was some of our work
Now let’s talk about yours.
Tell us what you’re building. You’ll get a written plan, a clear proposal, and a team that shows its work every week.