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Phenomena — 1.5.2024

Destination USA? – In Discussion with Ala Architects

Ala Architects has designed buildings throughout Europe, but so far none of their designs have made it to the United States. Why is that?

Opinion Piece — 1.5.2024

Why Is Finland Not More Visible Abroad?

Rainer Mahlamäki sees at least three factors that explain the modest international visibility of contemporary Finnish architecture. The photos in the article show the 11 buildings located in Finland that have been shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award.

Column — 1.5.2024

Sustainability Is No Longer a Matter of Choice

A new EU directive demonstrates that sustainability entails more than just environmental impacts, and it affects us all.

Phenomena — 1.5.2024

Finnish (Post)modernism?

The prominent names in Finnish architecture of the 1980s, Simo and Käpy Paavilainen, Jyrki Tasa, and Reijo Jallinoja, talk about what postmodernism meant to them at the time, and what it means today.

Article Collection — 1.5.2024

Internationalising Finland – Four Viewpoints

Four architects who have made Finland their home discuss what day-to-day practice looks like here and the change that is needed to help the sector become more international in outlook.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.5.2024

Third in China

The Nanchang Poly Grand Theatre is the centre of the metropolis’s new district and PES Architects' third cultural building in China.

Opinion Piece — 1.5.2024

How to Integrate into the Finnish Workforce?

To integrate fully into Finnish society, you need to learn the language, says Martino De Rossi.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.5.2024

A Friendly Neighbour

A new community hall and seven rental apartments have been forged on a cramped lot near the centre of Zurich.

Opinion Piece — 1.5.2024

How Can Architecture Firms Support Multiculturalism?

In many Finnish architecture firms, international professionals often face career ceilings at junior positions, regardless of their level of experience, writes Gülcan Ozan.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.5.2024

Balanced Layers

Adding new flats to a historic Barcelona apartment building called for adaptation, not obliteration.

Opinion Piece — 1.5.2024

What Can an Architect Learn from the Working Cultures Abroad?

In Finland, the process of execution of design project is highly standardised and bound by law. In India, there is a lot of back and forth between the worksite and the design table, which compensates for the lack of standardisation, compares Sudar Oli Gunasekaran.

Book — 1.5.2024

Writings of a Cosmopolitan

Architect Sigurd Frosterus is often recognized for the buildings he designed – first and foremost, for the Stockmann Department Store in Helsinki – but his intellectual prose spanned from practically all fields of art to philosophy and the development of humanity.

Opinion Piece — 1.5.2024

Destination USA? – In Discussion with Ala Architects

Why Is Finland Not More Visible Abroad?

Sustainability Is No Longer a Matter of Choice

Finnish (Post)modernism?

Internationalising Finland – Four Viewpoints

Third in China

How to Integrate into the Finnish Workforce?

A Friendly Neighbour

How Can Architecture Firms Support Multiculturalism?

Balanced Layers

What Can an Architect Learn from the Working Cultures Abroad?

Writings of a Cosmopolitan

How Can I Support My International Colleagues?

How Modern Air Conditioning Came to Finland

The Domestication of the Foreign