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Protected buildings should always be renovated preserving their distinctive features. Nowadays, more and more often, the proposed solution is demolition to make way for larger and more efficient spaces.
Eero Saarinen’s second wife, Aline Louchheim Saarinen, had a significant impact on how Saarinen’s architecture has been interpreted and understood.
The key challenges of urban planning extend beyond the human scale, argues Tommy Lindgren.
What could the Finnish urban planning and design practice learn from New York’s community gardens?
The growth of the Helsinki region is a challenge for the development of Helsinki’s city centre. The urban development ideals that have taken over the planning in Helsinki over the last few decades have failed to recognize the nature of urbanization in the long term.
To date, urban planning has failed to pay due consideration to urban carbon sinks and the numerous other benefits of urban green. Researchers in the Co-Carbon project compiled a set of tools for architects and landscape architects to foster carbon-smart solutions.
Could emptying office buildings be saved by an upward trend similar to that which industrial buildings saw during the last century?
The Kuokkala centre shows that urban planning, at its best, is an endurance discipline.
The wooden pavilions create sheltered spaces in the renovated Turku Market Square.
The mark of the hand of architects from several different eras was preserved in the renovation of Lahti City Hall.
The book series edited and coordinated by the Estonian Academy of Arts brings together the development of Estonian arts from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Panu Kaila’s latest book offers a critique on the technical solutions of modern construction.
Ukrainian architect and historian Ievgeniia Gubkina wrote a book about the architecture of her homeland in the middle of the war.
The Pasila machine workshop, which once manufactured railway carriages, has been renovated in stages for new uses, experience being accumulated along the way.
An art museum in Ekenäs shows us that architecture plays a role in revitalising small towns.
