Interview

A Friendly Neighbour

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

Article

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.

Interview

Balanced Layers

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

Article

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

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.

Article

How Can I Support My International Colleagues?

As individual practitioners, we can play a role in making our profession more inclusive, writes Arvind Ramachandran.

Book

How Modern Air Conditioning Came to Finland 

Seija Linnanmäki’s dissertation turns the spotlight on the engineers of the 1940s and 50s and examines building technology as one of the key features in the modernization of architecture.

Essay

The Domestication of the Foreign

How do the local and the foreign come together? For Fernando Nieto, the adaptation process is two-sided.

Interview

Tested by Time

Photo: Anders Portman / Kuvatoimisto Kuvio What goes through an architect’s head when a project takes no less than 18 years to complete? Meander’s designers explain how to keep the goal clear in mind.