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Essay — 1.1.2025

Sites of Resistance

The rise of protest, activism and alternative memorials challenge urban planners to adopt more flexible approaches to the urban landscape.

Project Review — 1.1.2025

Cold and Warm

New premises have been built for a university of applied sciences adjacent to an events centre, in the Port of Kantasatama in Kotka.

Project Review — 1.1.2025

Bridge of Changing Values

The bridge designed by landscape architecture office Maanlumo creates a new urban space through the synergy of change and preservation.

Project Review — 1.1.2025

And Then There Was White

With the completion of the new office and hotel building, the dominance of red brick on the Katajanokka waterfront gives way to white.

Book — 1.1.2025

12,000 Years of Building Finland

A new general overview of Finnish architectural history incorporates prehistoric structures, the built heritage of Sápmi Region, and environmental aspects into the familiar story.

Editorial — 1.1.2025

The various development phases of the South Harbour in this millennium do not draw a very flattering picture of the ability of Helsinki’s urban planning machinery to solve such a tangle of problems, writes Kristo Vesikansa.

Book — 1.1.2025

Castle Towers in Helsinki

A book about Gustaf Estlander opens up the history of 28 Art Nouveau buildings in Helsinki.

Essay — 1.1.2025

The newest Alvar Aalto Medallist has an intense sensitivity for all aspects of space

The architect Marie-José Van Hee’s oeuvre largely consists of skilfully designed private houses in Belgium.

Book — 1.1.2025

One-Eyed King in the Land of the Blind

A strong view of the characteristics of architectural quality runs as a common thread throughout Kaj Nyman’s newest essays.

Phenomena — 1.1.2025

The Views Are What Really Matters

If the plans materialise, the new business district on Makasiiniranta will become part of Helsinki’s national landscape during the 2030s. Architect Mikko Summanen considers its design a “once in a lifetime” project.

Book — 1.1.2025

Time is Always Present in the Experience of Place

The collection of Riitta Nikula’s texts offers a glimpse into both the career of the professor emerita and the changing concepts of art history from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Panel — 1.1.2025

“Museum that is appropriate for the location” and a “plan full of risks” – Experts share their opinions on the shortlisted proposals for the new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki

The finalists in the international architecture competition for the new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki were published last December. The museum will be located in Makasiinranta, with its plans already developed into a draft local detailed plan based on the competition organised in 2022. We asked five architects for their opinion about the designs.

Opinion Piece — 1.1.2025

Sites of Resistance

Cold and Warm

Bridge of Changing Values

And Then There Was White

12,000 Years of Building Finland

Yet Another Monument?

Castle Towers in Helsinki

The newest Alvar Aalto Medallist has an intense sensitivity for all aspects of space

One-Eyed King in the Land of the Blind

The Views Are What Really Matters

Time is Always Present in the Experience of Place

“Museum that is appropriate for the location” and a “plan full of risks” – Experts share their opinions on the shortlisted proposals for the new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki

Helsinki’s Sprawls and Burrs

Ode to a Work in Progress

A Child-Friendly City is Slower, More Permissive and Better for Everyone