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Fedje Hotel
Fedje Hotel
Jury Winner, 2023 A+Awards, Hospitality - Unbuilt Hospitality
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Fedje Hotel
Jury Winner, 2023 A+Awards, Hospitality - Unbuilt Hospitality
Project of the Day on Aug 01, 2023
Project Featured on Aug 01, 2023
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25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
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530 inhabitants in a little island community. Only a couple of hours’ beautiful journey from Bergen, but nevertheless off the beaten track. You have to take a ferry to get to the island. The population has halved since 1950. As jobs in fishing and fish processing disappeared, people lost their livelihoods. Younger people left Fedje, leaving an aging population. But now the distillery, the women and the hotel plans have blown a new wind of optimism across the island.
An island community threatened by depopulation can now have the confidence to
face a future on the island they love. Feddie Distillery and the people of Fedje are throwing themselves into a new adventure. They have the sea and their gorgeous surroundings as a playground, a spectacular hotel on its way, climate-positive ambitions and good values.
Time is a mantra. Now Todd Saunders is reinventing Fedje together with the women
and the Fedje locals; the distillery, hotel, and a park are all on the drawing board.
“If it had just been a proposal to build a hotel I would not have accepted the commission. So many destinations invest in just one single project. I don’t have much faith in that idea. The people at Feddie, together with the locals, are thinking bigger and wider than that. It’s the nuances and all the surrounding elements that
create the whole picture; that’s what creates a place people will long to return to. To travel to an island just to drink whisky – that’s boring. There has to be a lot more to it: we have to design an experience. What’s on your bucket list? At which restaurant would you wish to eat your last meal? Fedje deserves its place on that map.”
What does that bigger picture on Fedje look like for travelers in a frenzied world?
“We need to step out of time. We’re drowning in everything digital and need to reclaim the analogue. We need to holiday away from the world; to disconnect, not to connect up. We need breaks and breathing spaces. When we speak of “island time” we’re talking about time that is regulated by the sea, where everything moves beautifully slowly. When you come to islands like that, you re-discover a different concept of time that has been lost for many people. When we build a hotel on the island’s finest building plot, we need to highlight the landscape. It should be like an exclamation mark that brings out the best of its surroundings. We need to give the island a voice. Fedje is rugged, with lots of weather. Modern-day people have to queue up and live tightly packed. It’s different up north: at Fedje it’s all quiet. You can hear the sea: with the windows open you can get a good night’s sleep and wake up to no other sound than the waves.”
An island community threatened by depopulation can now have the confidence to
face a future on the island they love. Feddie Distillery and the people of Fedje are throwing themselves into a new adventure. They have the sea and their gorgeous surroundings as a playground, a spectacular hotel on its way, climate-positive ambitions and good values.
Time is a mantra. Now Todd Saunders is reinventing Fedje together with the women
and the Fedje locals; the distillery, hotel, and a park are all on the drawing board.
“If it had just been a proposal to build a hotel I would not have accepted the commission. So many destinations invest in just one single project. I don’t have much faith in that idea. The people at Feddie, together with the locals, are thinking bigger and wider than that. It’s the nuances and all the surrounding elements that
create the whole picture; that’s what creates a place people will long to return to. To travel to an island just to drink whisky – that’s boring. There has to be a lot more to it: we have to design an experience. What’s on your bucket list? At which restaurant would you wish to eat your last meal? Fedje deserves its place on that map.”
What does that bigger picture on Fedje look like for travelers in a frenzied world?
“We need to step out of time. We’re drowning in everything digital and need to reclaim the analogue. We need to holiday away from the world; to disconnect, not to connect up. We need breaks and breathing spaces. When we speak of “island time” we’re talking about time that is regulated by the sea, where everything moves beautifully slowly. When you come to islands like that, you re-discover a different concept of time that has been lost for many people. When we build a hotel on the island’s finest building plot, we need to highlight the landscape. It should be like an exclamation mark that brings out the best of its surroundings. We need to give the island a voice. Fedje is rugged, with lots of weather. Modern-day people have to queue up and live tightly packed. It’s different up north: at Fedje it’s all quiet. You can hear the sea: with the windows open you can get a good night’s sleep and wake up to no other sound than the waves.”
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