Villa Grieg is an amazing summer house located in Bergen, Norway, designed in 2017 by Saunders Architecture.

Description
The setting for Villa Grieg could hardly be more seductive or enticing. The house sits upon the brow of a hill, overlooking the waters of Lake Nordås and its collection of small islands. Situated around fifteen minutes drive to the south of the city of Bergen, the neighbourhood has a semi-rural and almost bucolic quality, which comes partly from the wealth of woods and trees, but also the open views of a unique and picturesque landscape where hills and coastal inlets combine.
The design of the house itself, for Alexander and Tonje Grieg, makes the most of this engaging, open vista. Todd Saunders describes the house as a kind of ?view finder? with the main living spaces looking out across water, while the side elevations are more protected and relatively enclosed, helping to sharpen the focus upon Lake Nordås itself. No wonder, perhaps, that the neighbourhood is known as ?Paradis?. Alexander Grieg and his family have a long standing connection with the area, stretching back to the 1880s, when Alex?s great, great, great grandfather?s cousin, the composer Edvard Grieg, commissioned the architect Schak Bull to design a summer house here for himself and his wife, soprano Nina Hagerup. Fusing references from Swiss chalets and Long Island beach houses, as well as Nordic vernacular, the house was christened ?Troldhaugen?, or ?Troll Hill?. ...