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User's Viewpoint — 1.1.2020

Farmhouse Living Room, Church and Dance Floor

Puuhi, a community space for informal encounters and cultural activities in the village of Soini, was born from a local initiative. A local yet internationally renowned architect Anssi Lassila was a natural choice for the job.

Column — 1.6.2019

Architects Are Guarding the Future of Circular Economy

As we are progressing from the old, conventional linear economic model towards a circular economy, architects and planners are making some of the most crucial decisions, Nani Pajunen points out.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

Culture in the Big League

Completed last year in Fuzhou, the cultural centre consists of five main functions: an opera house, concert hall, multifunctional hall, cinema and exhibition hall. Pekka Salminen, professor and architect, tells about the project and the activities of PES-Architects in China.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

An Office for the New Economy

Digital banking service Holvi decided to build new office premises in Elanto cooperative’s old headquarters in Kallio, Helsinki. The designers needed to create an image of what a new kind of bank could be, without forgetting the past.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

The Urban Power Station

Kalasatama Electricity Substation provides electricity to approximately 20,000 people in the Kalasatama, Kulosaari, and Suvilahti districts in Helsinki, yet also aims to create an inviting space for the citizens – with a surrounding metal wall designed for graffiti art.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

Past and Future Luxury

The neo-Renaissance building in the Helsinki district of Ullanlinna has been has previously been used, among other things, as offices, but now the building has been restored to its original use as an apartment building.

Opinion Piece — 1.6.2019

Suburban Places at Urban Density

Suburban model. Drawing Lee Marable.

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

The Late-Capitalist City

As the murky ethical and societal implications of late-capitalism become ever clearer, is the compromise of our urban places a price worth paying for maintaining the current economic hegemony? Lee Marable examines the effects of late-capitalism on Kalasatama district in Helsinki.

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

Chapel Demolition

View to the main hall, 1970s. Photo Eero Suikki / Archive of the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

People — 1.6.2019

20 years of Exporting Danish Sustainable Architecture

3XN is one of the best-known Danish architectural firms in the world. What kind of approach to architecture anf business lies behind the firm's international expansion?

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

The Curious OOO

Mark Foster Cage Architects, Guggenheim Helsinki competition proposal, 2014. The proposal was never submitted to the competition.

Exhibition — 1.6.2019

The Poetic Potential in Structures

Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 tackled the multifaceted relationship of poetry and rationality in architecture. Marianna Wahlsten visited the Triennale opening.

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

On Doughnuts, Definitions, and the Troubles with Exhibiting

This autumn, the Oslo Architecture Triennale focussed on the problems of continuous growth. Dubravka Sekulić writes about her thoughts at the Triannale.

Exhibition — 1.6.2019

Le Chat Doré as a Stage Setting for Modern Life

The café Le Chat Doré was Birger Carlstedt and Karl Malmström's interpretation of the 1920s atmosphere. The reconstruction of the café is currently on display at the Amos Rex art museum.

Panel — 1.6.2019

Ecological Favourites

We asked a group of architects working in Finland to name an architecture project that has recently inspired them in the ecological sense.

Stories

Farmhouse Living Room, Church and Dance Floor

Architects Are Guarding the Future of Circular Economy

Culture in the Big League

An Office for the New Economy

The Urban Power Station

Past and Future Luxury

Suburban Places at Urban Density

The Late-­Capitalist City

Chapel Demolition

20 years of Exporting Danish Sustainable Architecture

The Curious OOO

The Poetic Potential in Structures

On Doughnuts, Definitions, and the Troubles with Exhibiting

Le Chat Doré as a Stage Setting for Modern Life

Ecological Favourites

The Late-Capitalist City