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Opinion Piece — 1.2.2022

Architecture’s Forgotten

Who will we remember, and who will we allow to slip into oblivion?

Panel — 1.2.2022

What Is Taboo in Finnish Architecture?

What are the points of view, themes and questions that have not received enough attention in architectural discussions? What are the unspoken taboos of Finnish architecture? We asked seven architects and architecture researchers to answer this question.

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.

Essay — 1.1.2022

Interpreting and Completing the Suburban Atmosphere

In a suburban residential area, what are the elements that determine how the place feels? Can the atmosphere of a place be created through design? Two architectural researchers explore the relationship between architect and place.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.1.2022

How Is Experience Connected to Urban Design?

The importance of social and cultural sustainability is often talked aboutout, but these values are not visible in the data that is provided for urban designers as a basis for their work. Harris-Kjisik Architects decided to collect this data themselves, when the development of the Itäkeskus district began.