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The Visible and the Unseen

The Lutheran Church has held centre stage in the history of Finnish ecclesiastical architecture, leaving other trajectories in its shadow.

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Sacred Heart of the Brandenburg Airport

The room of silence at Berlin’s new airport is a combination of illusion and strong materiality.

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Does the Ecclesiastical Architectural Heritage Have a Future?

Declining tax revenues and high repair costs have put the future of many ecclesiastical buildings at stake. We asked three experts for their views on the situation.

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Discourses on Dogma – Alvar Aalto and the Church

Alvar Aalto saw a parallel between his own architectural project and the Finnish national Lutheran Church’s adaptation to the twentieth century. In religion, as in modern architecture, tolerance bore more fruit than dogmatism.

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Money or Your Life? The Church of the Three Crosses awaits salvation

Alvar Aalto’s Church of the Three Crosses in Vuoksenniska, Imatra, has been closed since last autumn because it has suffered persistent moisture damage and would require urgent and extensive repairs.

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Remembering Kristian Gullichsen (1932–2021)

William J. R. Curtis wrote a memorial text about his friend, architect Kristian Gullichsen.

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New Wooden Grounds

The wooden block in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, is an example of the new scale of wooden urban building. Since January 2021, the office building has been occupied by the mobile game company Supercell.

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On the Drawing Board: Repairing is a Source for Sustainability

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.

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Revisit: Rajamäki School and Rajakaari Multipurpose Hall

Rajamäki School and Rajakaari Multipurpose Hall were built in the 1960s as a shared effort by the locals. Now the Municipality of Nurmijärvi is planning to demolish the buildings.