Project Review

A Centrepiece for an Office Campus

The Hatsinanpuisto Park features a stream that is home to endangered trout in the middle of a business block.

Project Review

Room for a Machine

The cool and stylish heating plant follows in the footsteps of modernist industrial architecture.

Book

The History that Paris Skipped

Justinien Tribillon shines a spotlight on the zone between the core of Paris and the suburbs, discovering a controversial and neglected side of the city.

Book

Banal Revival

The book discussing the concept of banal is a welcome addition to the ongoing debate on value and demolition in the construction sector.

Opinion

Let’s Take a Pause on the New Museum of Architecture and Design

Do we clearly understand why the museum requires an entirely new building, especially at a cost of one hundred million euros, ask Pedro Aibéo and Mark Linder.

Editorial

Suburbia, Nothing But Trouble?

Models for a more urban suburb have been sought in a number of directions for half a century already – with varying results.

Article

Three Cases of Nordic Suburban Renewal

The renovation, infill and renewal of suburban neighbourhoods built during the 1960s and 1970s is a burning issue across Europe. The three examples demonstrate the ways in which this problem has been addressed in Sweden and Denmark.

Article

Transforming Suburbs – Viewpoints from Finnish Cities 

Residential districts built between the 1950s and 1980s constitute a large geographic segment of Finnish cities. We asked those in charge of urban planning in our largest cities how the suburbs in their cities are being developed right now.

Article

The Promise of Medium-Density Housing

A city that provides room for both people and nature might be found somewhere between apartment blocks and detached houses. The Asuma research project gives a new benchmark for optimal urban density.