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Project Review — 1.1.2023

New Adventure and Romance

The new entrance building of Helsinki Airport offers a memorable setting for departures and arrivals.

Project Review — 1.1.2023

New Geometry of the Ceiling

Suspended ceiling in timber at Helsinki Airport is refined by digital technology.

Book — 1.1.2023

An Introduction to Elissa Aalto

The first book about Elissa Aalto focuses on her work as an architect and leaves the person distant.

Book — 1.1.2023

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.

Book — 1.1.2023

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.

Book — 1.5.2022

Promoting Beautiful, Well-functioning and Sustainable Housing Design

A new Finnish book on housing design discusses the principles of the field in a topical and inspiring way.

Book — 1.5.2022

A New Viewpoint for Urban Discourse

Architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani casts a critical eye deals on contemporary architecture and urban planning in his collection of writings, now translated into English.

Book — 1.5.2022

Ilmakirja Gives a Voice to the Supporters of Natural Ventilation

The book Ilmakirja is the most comprehensive presentation on natural ventilation in Finnish context by so far – yet ends up being more of a manifesto than a pure reference book.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

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.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

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.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

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.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

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.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

Cuckoo in the Villa

In the hands of a new owner, an old villa in Savonlinna underwent extensive renovations and received a few extra buildings on the grounds. The old and the new are engaging in a dialogue that is both delicate and doubtful.

Exhibition — 1.5.2022

To the Ends of the Earth

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, arranged in various parts of the city, looks at future cities as organisms.

Exhibition — 1.4.2022

Too Small to Fail?

The House by an Architect exhibition presented seven mini houses less than 30 square metres in size as part of the Fiskars Art and Design Biennale. The message of the exhibition ultimately remained unclear, writes Lee Marable.