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Glimpse of the Sea

The apartment buildings at the edge of the Haukilahdenranta linked house district introduce a new scale to the area.

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A Hospital on the Arctic Circle

The new extension to the Lapland Central Hospital complements rationally the old main hospital building, but at the same time represents a new, more humane healthcare environment.

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A Park in a School

The large school building blends seamlessly with its park-like surrounds thanks to two wise design insights.

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A Centrepiece for an Office Campus

The Hatsinanpuisto Park features a stream that is home to endangered trout in the middle of a business block.

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Room for a Machine

The cool and stylish heating plant follows in the footsteps of modernist industrial architecture.

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Where Can One Find Housing Reform?

The reform of housing construction often requires completed pioneering buildings. We asked Jyrki Tarpio, a postdoctoral researcher in housing design, to evaluate the apartment buildings presented in the Housing Reform issue (2/2025) that originate from Housing Reform architectural competitions and the City of Helsinki’s Re-Thinking Urban Housing programme.

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Cold and Warm

New premises have been built for a university of applied sciences adjacent to an events centre, in the Port of ​​Kantasatama in Kotka.

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Bridge of Changing Values

The bridge designed by landscape architecture office Maanlumo creates a new urban space through the synergy of change and preservation.

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And Then There Was White

With the completion of the new office and hotel building, the dominance of red brick on the Katajanokka waterfront gives way to white.