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PAN Treetop Cabins, Finnskogen, Eastern Norway

Photographs by PAN Treetop Cabins, used with permission.

PAN Treetop Cabins

Finnskogen, Innlandet, Eastern Norway

Steel-clad cabins on stilts in the Finnskogen forest, winner of the European Steel Design Award.

Why we love it

Espen Surnevik's cabins stand on slender legs among the pines above Gjessåsjøen, clad in dark steel and shaped like something that wandered out of a Tove Jansson illustration. In 2019 they took the main prize at the European Steel Design Awards, beating Adidas's headquarters and the new court at Roland-Garros — an unusually literal case of a small building outperforming large ones.

Finnskogen is the forest belt along the Swedish border, settled by Finns in the seventeenth century. It is quiet in a way that surprises people.

Best for: architecture pilgrims, and anyone who wants trees in every direction

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