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Energetic Visionary

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.

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Dressing the Icon

Anna & Eugeni Bach, Mies Missing Materiality, 2018. Photo Adrià Goula The Finnish-Spanish architect duo Anna and Eugeni Bach are active cultural operators in Barcelona.

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Interview with AS LL TK

In April 2019 the designer trio Antti Soini, Leo Lindroos and Tuuli Kanerva won the Housing Reform Helsinki – Housing 2020 architecture competition for a site in Jätkäsaari. What sort of ideas lie behind the winning proposal?

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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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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.

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A Cabin in the Archipelago

Jonas Malmberg interviewed Raili Pietilä in April 2005. The leisurely interview was carried out at her kitchen table at her home in central Helsinki.