Article

The Tools of the Master of Light

In Juha Leiviskä’s architecture, the light goes through changes and reflects the passage of time. This impression is created by more systematic design principles than is often thought.

Article

From Power Plant to Cultural Institution?

The design competition for the new museum of architecture and design is to be settled in September, outlining a new museum building in Helsinki’s South Harbour. Valtteri Hautsalo presents an alternative to these plans and demonstrates how the museum could be set up together with Helsinki Art Museum in the former Hanasaari power plant.

Exhibition

Quantitative and Qualitative Intelligence in Venice

The 19th Architecture Biennale seeks answers to the climate crisis based on different types of intelligence. Locality is strongly present in the national pavilions.

Book

A Hundred Years of Ukrainian Serial Production

What is Ukrainian housing architecture like? The book by Kateryna Malaia and Philipp Meuser presents the finest in the country’s residential construction from the past hundred years.

Opinion

There Is No Need to Take a Pause

The planning of the new Architecture and Design Museum is currently proceeding in a thoughtful and transparent manner, write Kaarina Gould and Pilvi Kalhama. 

Article

The Ultimate Recognition – But for What?

The Finlandia Prize for Architecture is a breeding ground for a destructive myth when it comes to architectural creativity, claims Anni Vartola.

Book

How the Mäusebunker and Hygienieinstitut Were Saved From Demolition

Two Berlin university buildings from the 1970s and early 1980s have become icons of the debate over whether to demolish or repair buildings.

Editorial

The Changing Values ​​of Modernity

How to approach post-World War Two architectural heritage? The Modern Heritage issue outlines alternative approaches to the question.