“The finished building avoids the often sprawling characteristics typical of the designs of young architects.”
1/2020Shared
How do we share the spaces we live in – at work, school or home? How to design collectively? Is the vision for the future we are building with architecture a shared one?
Flipside of an Activity-Based Office
An activity-based office increases interaction and creates innovations – or perhaps not. Virve Peteri, Academy Research Fellow, has studied workspaces of the 2010s. What kind of effects does an activity-based office have on working?
Nordic Voices
The Nordic Works collective is well-known for the participatory urban design method they have developed. After having operated in various parts of Finland for more than seven years, the collective is now looking abroad.
Campus for Connections
JKMM Archtects designed a new head office for Kesko Corporation in Kalasatama, Helsinki. The activity-based environment encourages encounters between the employees – and the building itself also positions itself to encounter the new city district being built around it.
Ecological Favourites
We asked a group of architects working in Finland to name an architecture project that has recently inspired them in the ecological sense.
6/2019Economy
What are the connections between architecture and economy? How does the current economic system affect architecture, our cities and buildings?
Culture in the Big League
Completed last year in Fuzhou, the cultural centre consists of five main functions: an opera house, concert hall, multifunctional hall, cinema and exhibition hall. Pekka Salminen, professor and architect, tells about the project and the activities of PES-Architects in China.
20 years of Exporting Danish Sustainable Architecture
3XN is one of the best-known Danish architectural firms in the world. What kind of approach to architecture anf business lies behind the firm's international expansion?
The Curious OOO
Despite its long name, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a surprisingly approachable new school of philosophy. It is being utilised for both creative work and a more comprehensive reorganisation of worldviews. When describing the profession of an architect, interdisciplinarity is one of the first words that usually comes to mind.
Chapel Demolition
The modernist Lepola funerary chapel in Kouvola never received protection status. We can ask ourselves, what is the point of statements from the authorities when even indisputable architectural values are ultimately overshadowed by economic concerns?
On Doughnuts, Definitions, and the Troubles with Exhibiting
This autumn, the Oslo Architecture Triennale focussed on the problems of continuous growth. Dubravka Sekulić writes about her thoughts at the Triannale.
20 years of Exporting Danish Sustainable Architecture
3XN is one of the best-known Danish architectural firms in the world. What kind of approach to architecture anf business lies behind the firm's international expansion?
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5/2019Ecology
Land use and construction consume large amounts of natural resources and energy, causing a lion's share of the emissions and waste. What kind of changes this should prompt in architecture, if we aim for a more sustainable future?
A Nature Trail in the Grip of Culture and the Past
How to maintain the innate wildness of nature while making it available for everyone? Hanna Johansson visits the recreational path in Lammassaari, Helsinki.
On a Path Toward Ecological Living
Talo Kissankäpälä is one of the first single-family houses with natural stack ventilation in the Helsinki metropolitan area that was built after the new Finnish energy regulations came into effect.
The Renovated Cradle of Humanist Learning
The main building of University of Jyväskylä, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1956, has in the past suffered from a sick building syndrome. Now, newly renovated it returns to its central role on campus.
Growth and its Costs
Studying the history of urban development might help with understanding the future of cities, suggests Eeva Berglund.
An Architecture Shaped by the Wind, the Water and the Sun
All too often, discussions about sustainability in architecture are reduced to the technical performance of buildings. Japanese architect Hiroshi Sambuichi's more lyrical approach inspires Maiju Suomi.
On a Path Toward Ecological Living
Talo Kissankäpälä is one of the first single-family houses with natural stack ventilation in the Helsinki metropolitan area that was built after the new Finnish energy regulations came into effect.