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Book — 1.4.2022

Rational and International Wivi Lönn

Several books have been published about Wivi Lönn in connection with the 150th anniversary year. The monograph published in the wake of the Museum of Finnish Architecture's exhibition Long Live Wivi Lönn! is the one most expressly focussed on Lönn’s architecture and career.

Book — 1.4.2022

Human(e) Spaces

The new encyclopedic book brings together a wide selection of non-heteronormative spaces around the world, from history to the present day.

Book — 1.4.2022

The New Forms of the Private and the Shared

The newest book by Dogma, a Brussels-based architectural studio, questions the separated concepts of home and public space.

Project Review — 1.3.2022

Elemental Joy

Whilst Finlandia Hall is closed for renovation, a temporary, movable building will remain adjacent to it and offer a space for events. Despite its unrooted concept, the building forms an intimate connection to its environment, writes Lee Marable.

Project Review — 1.3.2022

An Oasis Along the Rapids

The re-designed riverside of Tikkurilankoski in Vantaa intertwines the cultural landscape with nature.

Exhibition — 1.3.2022

Xenakis Centenary Exhibition in Paris

The centenary exhibition showcases Iannis Xenakis’s key artistic and theoretical breakthroughs within music and architecture.

Book — 1.3.2022

For the Love of Life

Eighteen small booklets contain the discussions of Pritzker Prize winning architect Peter Zumthor with seventeen different artists and experts.

Book — 1.3.2022

The Dark Side of the Garden

The encyclopedic book brings together a versatile collection of fragments related to gardening.

Project Review — 1.2.2022

At a Second Glance

lushness, something that has also been given its place inside the apartments. Tarja Nurmi visits the housing block designed by Heikkinen-Komonen Architects.

Book — 1.2.2022

How Money Gives Shape to Our Lived Environment

In his new book, Matthew Soules discusses what happens to architecture when it becomes a medium of finance capitalist investment itself.

Book — 1.2.2022

A Profusion of Animal and Human Ornamentation on the Buildings of Helsinki

Juha Ilonen's book makes one pay attention to the decorative themes and details in urban buildings that are often just busily passed in everyday life.

Project Review — 1.2.2022

Attuned

The former factory block in Helsinki’s Arabianranta district has over the course of a couple of decades been transformed into a cultural campus. The latest addition to the block, the new Soiva building, offers music education facilities for both a university and a conservatory.

Project Review — 1.2.2022

Timber Forms the Next Generation

In Finland, CLT structures have recently proven especially popular in buildings for education. For Philip Tidwell, the award-winning Hopealaakso Daycare Centre by AFKS architects carries traces of issues that designers have to solve when new material is integrated into conventional systems of design and construction.

Project Review — 1.2.2022

Discreet Charm

The Isabella residential block in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, designed by Kirsi Korhonen and Mika Penttinen Architects, is tailored for different inhabitants from economics students to Swedish-speaking teachers.

Project Review — 1.1.2022

A Non-Place Transformed

Keilaniemi, the hub of company headquarters situated on the border of Espoo and Helsinki, is changing from a car-dominated district to a pedestrian one. Changing ideals have materialised in the creation of a new square.