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Editorial — 1.2.2022

Editorial 2/2022: Cycles of Remembering and Forgetting

Which buildings of our time get valued by the future generations is the result of an interactive process involving the media, professional institutions and the users of buildings and urban spaces.

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.

Visions — 1.2.2022

Can the Urban Structure Reduce the Need for Service Housing for the Elderly?

n 'Alternative' series architects improve the built environment with uncommissioned ideas. Sari Nieminen focusses on the city for the elderly.

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 — 1.2.2022

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.

Column — 1.2.2022

Sanatoria in the Shadow of Paimio

During the twentieth century, Finland had 80–85 institutions of care specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis. Paimio’s iconic figure has shadowed the rest of Finnish sanatorium architecture, argue Heini Hakosalo and Emilia Rönkkö.

Essay — 1.2.2022

Essay: In Search of a Hero – Stories of Aino Aalto

Ulla Engman examines the stories told of Aino Aalto.

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

Erik Bryggman and the Turku Cityscape

Erik Bryggman is particularly well known for his individual buildings. His work, however, demonstrates also a clear approach to urban planning.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.1.2022

On the Drawing Board: Three Examples of the Circular Economy

The circular economy can be promoted through land use planning, and not just individual construction projects, states architect Aura Pajamo from the Muuan design agency.

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

Canal City Shaped by Wind and Waves

Ranta-Tampella, a canal district for 4,000 residents is being built in Tampere. In constructing the area, special emphasis has been placed on public outdoor spaces.

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.

Visions — 1.1.2022

Alternative: Yes in my backyard

ow to densify a post-war neighborhood to have a wider range of dwelling types and to encourage walking and cycling instead of car traffic?