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Colour and Materials Designer Anni Rantasalo: What Is More Important Than Colour Is How the Paint Is Produced And What Ingredients It Contains

For colour and materials designer Anni Rantasalo, colour comes from materials. “Colours actually play a surprisingly small role in my day-to-day work”, master painter and colour and materials designer Anni Rantasalo says.

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A Wise Body

What if a more sustainable way of building would be better perceived through the senses and emotions?

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Talking Trash With an Architect And a Designer

What is it like to design with materials someone else has discarded? Architect Seela Pentikäinen explored the topic with designer Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom and architect Satu Ratinen.

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A Recipe for Sustainable Construction

The log row house in the wooden residential district of Honkasuo aims to be an example of how to build as sustainably as possible. Is it enough?

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Part of the Continuum – Interview with Peter Barber

Peter Barber’s residential buildings in London create continuity with the picturesque historic urban fabric, combining aesthetics and ethics in an original way.

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Revitalizing the City with Community Gardens

What could the Finnish urban planning and design practice learn from New York’s community gardens?

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Halting New Construction – Interview with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

The moratorium on new construction is one of the most attention-grabbing manifestos in the field of architecture in recent years. Architect Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, its initiator, explains what the initiative is actually about.