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Repairing old buildings is a way to find solutions that can also be applied to the design of sustainable new buildings, say Emilia and Pekka Saatsi.
In the middle of a residential area in Oulu, a silo designed by Alvar Aalto is decaying as one last remnant of a pulp mill that operated on the site in the 1900s. In its unmaintained state, the building offers a lesson in the time of an eco-crisis.
How to approach post-World War Two architectural heritage? The Modern Heritage issue outlines alternative approaches to the question.
Infill construction, wooden building and many other contemporary topics in architecture are also related to colour design, Saara Pyykkö points out.
Modern architecture has made a clear distinction between waste and new construction. A more comprehensive understanding of the concept of waste could help us in understanding the issues of demolition and preservation.
