Juvet Landscape Hotel

Juvet Landscape Hotel is a modern landscape hotel at Alstad in Valldal, surrounded by forest, mountains, river water and the steep terrain around Gudbrandsjuvet. The hotel was designed by Jensen & Skodvin Architects and is built as a group of small, separate rooms placed carefully into the natural landscape rather than as one large hotel building. Its landscape rooms are known for their dark, minimal interiors and large glass walls that face directly into the surrounding nature, making the view itself the main feature of each room. The hotel also includes a bathhouse, older farm buildings and communal spaces, creating a mix of Norwegian rural history, modern architecture and remote luxury. Be aware that the hotel don’t like people coming there to have a look without having rented a room, and can be very rude about it.

Juvet Landscape Hotel has appeared in Ex Machina (2014) and Succession (2018–2023). In both productions, the hotel is used as an isolated retreat for extremely wealthy and powerful men. Its architecture, glass walls, forest setting and sense of separation from ordinary life make it especially effective as a place where control, money, technology and manipulation are hidden inside beautiful surroundings.

In Ex Machina (2014), Juvet Landscape Hotel appears as the remote private retreat of tech billionaire Nathan Bateman. Caleb arrives there after winning what he believes is a visit to his employer’s secluded estate, but the location quickly becomes part of the film’s unsettling atmosphere. The glass-walled rooms and surrounding wilderness make Nathan’s home feel both luxurious and trapped, with nature visible everywhere but freedom always out of reach. The hotel’s architecture is central to the film’s contrast between human isolation, artificial intelligence and controlled observation. While the story places Nathan’s estate in a remote part of Alaska, the real location is Juvet Landscape Hotel in Valldal, Norway.

In Succession (2023), Juvet Landscape Hotel appears in “Kill List”, episode 5 of season 4. The hotel is used as Lukas Matsson’s Norwegian retreat during the negotiations between GoJo and Waystar Royco. Much of the episode takes place around the hotel, with the Roy family and Waystar executives staying in the landscape rooms and moving through the hotel’s outdoor paths, dining spaces and surrounding nature. The location gives Matsson’s world a very different atmosphere from the Roy family’s New York offices and private jets: quieter, colder, more isolated and just as controlled. The glass rooms and mountain setting turn the hotel into a corporate battlefield, where conversations about money, power and betrayal happen inside a landscape that appears calm on the surface. In the episode, a gondola can be seen in the background when the characters arrive at Juvet and again during a later party scene. This is Romsdalsgondolen in Åndalsnes, which is actually about 50 minutes away by road. The series therefore compresses the geography of the region, making two separate Norwegian locations appear much closer together than they are in real life.

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