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Home Futures

The exhibition by the Design Museum, London, sheds an eye on the idea of home through past visions 20th century.

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Studio Visit: Jenni Poutanen – Occupation: Diversity and Variety

Architect and university teacher Jenni Poutanen studies and develops working and learning spaces and teaches architecture at Tampere University. She perceives architectural research as an activity that supports design work.

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Visible Walls

In Jätkäsaari Elementary School and Daycare Centre, art is integrated into the brickwork of the facades.

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Wooden Precision

Energy efficiency aspects and the existing oak trees on the site steered the planning of the daycare centre in the Vaarala district of Vantaa.

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Learning from a School

The first school project in Finland utilising solid wood construction was built with elements produced in a local factory. For the designers, learning about the novel material offered also a chance for new architectural thinking.

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Schools – Interviewing the directors of architecture schools

We asked current directors of the three Finnish architecture schools to share their thoughts on architectural education and the school's focus areas.

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Studio Visit: Trevor Harris and Hennu Kjisik – Standing Up for Ideals

For a good three decades now, Trevor Harris and Hennu Kjisik have been running an architecture firm named after themselves, yielding thoughts and ideas concerning urban planning and architecture that have had an impact on almost every major urban area in Finland.

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Within the Limits

The design of a student housing block to be built on a cramped plot in the University of Helsinki’s Kumpula campus had to take into account, among other things, traffic noise, pollution, the scale of existing campus architecture and large differences in ground height.