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Phenomena — 1.6.2020

The Future Lies in Africa

Africa is urbanising at a fast pace. If western architects want to be part of the development, an attitude of awareness and humbleness is needed.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2020

An Everyday Landmark

The Pööli parking and service facility, built adjacent to Hämeenlinna railway station, offers car-parking space for commuters and residents of the area.

Project Review — 1.6.2020

Three Sugar Cubes in Kulosaari

The social housing project by the City of Helsinki in Kulosaari island shows that quality of housing can be also achieved with a low budget.

Project Review — 1.6.2020

The Art of Possibilities

The old Kirkkonummi Library from the 1980s is gobbled up by the new Fyyri. Anni Vartola visits the new library designed by JKMM Architects.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2020

The City of Helsinki’s new Urban Environment House brings together all the city’s departments of the built environment under a single roof. The new building by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects also signifies a change in planning culture.

Exhibition — 1.6.2020

The Multi-Faceted Sirens

The exhibition on the life and works of Kaija and Heikki Siren at the Espoo City Museum is the first ever comprehensive exhibition in Finland of the Sirens’ architecture. The Baghdad Conference Palace by Kaija and Heikki Siren was completed in 1982.Everything and Nothing – Architects Kaija + Heikki SirenKAMU Espoo City Museum, Espoo23 October […]

Exhibition — 1.6.2020

Alvar Aalto as a Museum Architect

The Alvar Aalto Museum’s winter 2020–2021 exhibition presents Aalto’s ten most significant museum designs, from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Phenomena — 1.5.2020

New Colossi

Bigness is becoming a prominent feature of Helsinki’s cityscape. Antti Auvinen’s photographs examine the phenomenon.

Phenomena — 1.5.2020

Bauhaus Legacy Born on the Dunes

Tel Aviv is home to an architectural conservation site consisting of around 4,000 buildings from the 1930s. Following a multi-stage selection process, it was designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2003.

Column — 1.5.2020

Time Makes a Monument

Iida Kalakoski examines the changing cityscape of Tampere and equally changing meanings.

Editorial — 1.5.2020

Editorial 5/20: All That Is Solid Melts into Air?

Meanings that architecture conveys are not static but closely tied with the changes in society.

Panel — 1.5.2020

What Defines a Monument?

We asked three experts to tell us what kind of architectural monument piques their interest and to name one example.

Case Study — 1.5.2020

The Monumental Alliance of Finnish Government and Civilization

The Kansalaistori square, with the Parliament House on one side, paired with the Central Library on the other, has become a monumental square for the era of Finnish independence. Ilkka Törmä draws a continuum between it and Senate Square, a monument of tsarist Finland.

Phenomena — 1.5.2020

Under Fifty and Soon Gone

In central Tampere, there are plans to pull down the former National Workers' Savings Bank building to make way for a new, and much taller, development. This doesn't convince Anselmi Moisander.

Book — 1.5.2020

Ruins Revisited

Jonathan Hill's new book approaches the rather well-trodden subject with a fresh angle.

Stories

The Future Lies in Africa

An Everyday Landmark

Three Sugar Cubes in Kulosaari

The Art of Possibilities

A New Base for Urbanism

The Multi-Faceted Sirens

Alvar Aalto as a Museum Architect

New Colossi

Bauhaus Legacy Born on the Dunes

Time Makes a Monument

Editorial 5/20: All That Is Solid Melts into Air?

What Defines a Monument?

The Monumental Alliance of Finnish Government and Civilization

Under Fifty and Soon Gone

Ruins Revisited