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Refurbishment and renovation, 1st phaseArchitects Mona Schalin, Marica Schalin, Kristina Karlsson, Varvara Protassova Location Mäkelänkatu 86, HelsinkiGross Area 3 988 m2Completion 2018 Original building Yrjö Lindegren 1951
Photos Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Published in 4 – 2018 - New history
Each summer a new experimental pavilion is erected by the Serpentine Gallery in London. Marianna Wahlsten interviewed artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist prior to the official opening of the 2019 pavilion.
The Kansalaistori square, with the Parliament House on one side, paired with the Central Library on the other, has become a monumental square for the era of Finnish independence. Ilkka Törmä draws a continuum between it and Senate Square, a monument of tsarist Finland.
Architect Olli Lehtovuori’s own house has for already half a century served as a laboratory for residential architecture. Its flexible floorplan based on a traditional two-room farmhouse would be applicable even today.
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.
In her essay, Iris Andersson chases for the definition and feeling of home.