sami parliament
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The point of departure was to create an ideal and dignified framework for the efforts to preserve and develop Sami culture, language, education, tradition and industry.
The Sami parliament is a robust concept, utilizing through simple means the qualities of the site, the complexity of the spatial program, and the program’s desire for an architectonically distinctive work of symbolic value.
The building is an icon for Sami identity and banks on dignity, understanding of culture and tradition, while at the same time reaching beyond traditional limitations.
Among 111 proposals from all over the EU, aart was short-listed along with five other architects practices.