The centre

The Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale - nkd - is designed by the architects Haga & Grov from Stavanger, in collaboration with architects Hjeltnes and Egge. The project of Haga & Grov won a competition in 1992. Their design has been published world-wide in several books and magazines on architecture and has won the Houen prize, one of the most important prizes for contemporary architecture in Norway.

The centre is made up of several buildings: a studio-building with a workshop and five individual studios(810 m²), five houses for the guest artists(56 – 91 m²) project house (120 m²)and a house from 1970, donated by Oddleif and Tora Fagerheim that houses the administration, guest-and common-rooms for the artists.