The challenge
A celebrated practice hidden behind a cluttered, dated portfolio.
Halden’s work spoke of restraint and material honesty. Their website spoke of neither: dense grids, small images and no sense of scale.
All work
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A gallery-quiet website for an Oslo architecture practice that draws buildings from the ground they stand on.
- Project
- 01
- Category
- Brand & Website
- Year
- 2026
Overview
Twenty-eight years of buildings, finally given room to breathe.
- Client
- Halden Arkitekter
- Industry
- Architecture
- Year
- 2026
- Location
- Oslo, Norway
- Services
- Strategy
- Art Direction
- UX/UI Design
- Web Design
- Development
The approach
Design the site the way Halden designs a building — from the ground up.
We built a strict facade-like grid, a single light weight of type and a warm stone palette taken directly from their materials.
The solution
A calm, image-led site where every project gets a full room.
A project index that reads like a drawing register, long-form project pages and a journal for the practice’s thinking.
The result
The practice now has a presence as considered as its architecture.
The site gives the work scale, silence and context, and gives the team one place to tell its story.
What we did
Our part in the work.
Qoro led 5 disciplines on Halden, carried by one small team from first conversation to launch.
- 01 Strategy what the practice stands for
- 02 Art Direction stone, light and silence
- 03 UX/UI Design an index like a drawing register
- 04 Web Design a facade-like grid
- 05 Development fast, accessible, CMS-driven
Design system
Colour & type.
The palette and typefaces behind Halden. Tap a colour to copy its value.
Display
Almarai Light
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 &?!
Body
Almarai Regular
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 &?!
One light weight of type, a grid borrowed from facades, and warm oak used only where light falls.
Wordmark
Halden
Interaction — try it
The website
Designed and built in the browser.
Homepage, index and inner pages, designed as one system across desktop and mobile.
On mobile
Redesigned for the thumb, not shrunk from the desktop.
Outcome
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01
Stronger digital presence
Projects shown at the scale they deserve.
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02
Clearer brand positioning
Restraint made visible in every screen.
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03
Easier to maintain
A CMS the team updates without developers.
Halden — in one line
A website built the way Halden builds — from the ground it stands on.
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Solace
