We’ve noticed that Norway is exhibiting a bit of an art and culture trend at the moment, from museums to cultural centres, assembled at different scales but each time maintaining a strong sense of the Scandinavian vernacular – attention to climate, wood and an acute profile.

So here they are, some of Norway’s best:

1. Kilden Performing Arts Centre by ALA Architects ltd
Kristiansand, Norway
In Kristiansand, Norway, a concert hall and theatre is the city’s new cultural and architectural landmark.

2. Astrup Fearnley Museet by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Oslo, Norway 
On Oslo's southwest coast, a contemporary art museum has converted a formerly closed harbor into a new public arena.

3. Sogn & Fjordane Art Museum by C.F. Møller Architects
Førde, Norway 
Designed to mimic a piece of ice leftover from a landslide, a new art and craft museum takes on its mountainous surroundings in western Norway, near the largest glacier in mainland Europe. 

4. Plassen (Molde Cultural Centre) by 3XN
Molde, Norway
‘There must be room for celebration in this building – inside, on top of it and around it,’ says architect Jan Ammundsen of 3XN about the new cultural centre in Molde, Norway. The firm was commissioned to realize the structure in the middle of the town, overlooking a scenic fjord and mountains.

5. The Arch Cultural Centre by 3XN
Mandal, Norway 
In the picturesque town of Mandal, about 365km south of Oslo, a new cultural centre is seeking to fuse Norway’s traditions with modern functions.

6. Vennesla Library & Cultural Centre by Helen & Hard
Vennesla, Norway
The interior of a new library and cultural centre in Vennesla, Norway, resembles that of a human with a metaphorical heart and ribcage at its centre.