New Adventure and Romance
The new entrance building of Helsinki Airport offers a memorable setting for departures and arrivals.
New Geometry of the Ceiling
Suspended ceiling in timber at Helsinki Airport is refined by digital technology.
An Introduction to Elissa Aalto
The first book about Elissa Aalto focuses on her work as an architect and leaves the person distant.
A Comprehensive Disability Manifesto for Architecture
Accessibility is an inadequate reading of disability in architecture, sees David Gissen. The Architecture of Disability re-examines the history and theory of architecture through the lense of disability.
A Solid Monograph on Juha Leiviskä’s Sensitive Architecture
The book published by the Museum of Finnish Architecture examines the career of architect Juha Leiviskä in the current century.
Techno and Coarseness
At long last, dance has finally received its own performance spaces in Helsinki, in the Cable Factory. The Dance House Helsinki is the first extension to the former factory building.
The Many Lives of a Commercial Palace
Renovated and remodelled many times over, Mikonkatu 7 has one of the most complex building histories in Helsinki. The latest renovation borrows heavily from the past yet interprets the themes through the means of contemporary architecture.
Like Time Standing Still
An old stable built more than a hundred years ago in Helsinki’s Punavuori is now home to people instead of horses. What remains is the historical atmosphere.
The Yellow Library Remains
In the renovation of the Jyväskylä University Library, the uses of the building have been completely reorganised, but the atmosphere conceived in the 1970s remains unchanged.