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Qaammat Pavilion Wins A+Awards he Qaammat pavilion designed
and built by Architect Konstantin
TIkonomidis in cooperation with
Sarfannguit, Greenland UNESCO and the Qeqqata Municipality,

located in Sarfannguit, Greenland wins
A+Awards.
Located in Sarfannguit, a cultural
landscape in West Greenland and a
UNESCO Worl Heritage site since 2018,
the Qaammat pavilion by Konstantin
Ikonomidis is designed to celebrate and
promote the Inuit intangible cultural
heritage and traditional knowledge of the
environment.
Characterised by the two fjords that
meet on Sarfannguit’s eastern tip the
pavilion’s location has been carefully
chosen by the local community, site
manager Paninnguaq Fleischer-Lyberth
and architect Konstantin Ikonomidis for
its impressive view over the Sarfannguit
municipality.
Set on the planned trail between
Sarfannguit and Nipisat, this site-specific
installation will serve as a landmark and
a gathering point and dissemination site,
where the World Heritage site’s beautiful
surroundings can be experienced by
locals and visitors to the village. The
Qaammat pavilion is designed as a poetic
and aesthetic object, but most importantly
as a symbolic gesture acknowledging
the natural site and rich history, the
distinctiveness of the Greenlandic culture,
and the spiritual sensibilities rooted in
Sarfannguit.

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