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name: "Huset, Longyearbyen"
subtitle: "the world's northernmost fine dining, remade by Snøhetta"
date: 2026-07-19
shortlist: true
link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/restaurants/huset-longyearbyen-svalbard-snohetta"
linkText: "wallpaper.com"
source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
promotedTo: huset-longyearbyen
topics: [travel-and-places, design-and-art]
tags: [svalbard, restaurant, design, arctic]
description: "Snøhetta's redesign of Longyearbyen's Huset — a 1951 multipurpose mining-town building turned fine-dining restaurant at 78 degrees north — with red linoleum, stained oak, and fabric wall panels tuned to shift with the polar night and midnight sun."
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Huset occupies a 1951 building that once served as Longyearbyen's church, hospital, school, and cinema all at once — practical multitasking for a mining town at 78 degrees north. Snøhetta's redesign kept that spirit of reuse: red linoleum floors, stained oak joinery, and layered transparent fabric panels that create a shifting moiré pattern on the walls as the light changes between polar night and the midnight sun. It still runs a 14-course tasting menu and one of Scandinavia's largest wine cellars.