Quiet Forms
Featured Project — 2026
The Glass
Archive
A public archive on the water’s edge, built from two gestures: a tiled tower that holds the collection in darkness, and a glass incline that pours daylight onto the reading floor. Every surface was drawn to age slowly and be repaired, not replaced.
- Area
- 14,200 m²
- Role
- Lead architect
- Status
- Completed
Capabilities
- Architecture
- Interior Design
- Landscape
- Furniture & Objects
- Spatial Identity
- Restoration
We believe a good building is mostly silence. Fewer materials, honest joints, and rooms that hold the light the way a cupped hand holds water — designed for the decades after the photographs.
48Projects built
11Countries
07Design awards
Client Voices
They gave us fewer things than we asked for, and every single one of them was right.
Five years on, the building looks better than the day we opened. That is the whole brief.
Halden listens to a site the way most people never listen to anything.
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