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Phenomena — 1.5.2022

Two Municipal Halls, Two Fates

Many significant buildings end up on lists for demolition if renovation seems too expensive or a suitable use cannot be found. The everyday built heritage is threatened without a timely protection status.

Research — 1.5.2022

Construction Waste and the Fiction of Purity

Modern architecture has made a clear distinction between waste and new construction. A more comprehensive understanding of the concept of waste could help us in understanding the issues of demolition and preservation.

Column — 1.5.2022

Building Conservation Is About More Than Putting Up a Front

Building protection is currently focussing too much on the facades, writes Erkki Mäkiö.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

Techno and Coarseness

At long last, dance has finally received its own performance spaces in Helsinki, in the Cable Factory. The Dance House Helsinki is the first extension to the former factory building.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

The Many Lives of a Commercial Palace

Renovated and remodelled many times over, Mikonkatu 7 has one of the most complex building histories in Helsinki. The latest renovation borrows heavily from the past yet interprets the themes through the means of contemporary architecture.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

Like Time Standing Still

An old stable built more than a hundred years ago in Helsinki’s Punavuori is now home to people instead of horses. What remains is the historical atmosphere.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

The Yellow Library Remains

In the renovation of the Jyväskylä University Library, the uses of the building have been completely reorganised, but the atmosphere conceived in the 1970s remains unchanged.

Project Review — 1.5.2022

Cuckoo in the Villa

In the hands of a new owner, an old villa in Savonlinna underwent extensive renovations and received a few extra buildings on the grounds. The old and the new are engaging in a dialogue that is both delicate and doubtful.

Exhibition — 1.5.2022

To the Ends of the Earth

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, arranged in various parts of the city, looks at future cities as organisms.

Book — 1.5.2022

Promoting Beautiful, Well-functioning and Sustainable Housing Design

A new Finnish book on housing design discusses the principles of the field in a topical and inspiring way.

Book — 1.5.2022

A New Viewpoint for Urban Discourse

Architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani casts a critical eye deals on contemporary architecture and urban planning in his collection of writings, now translated into English.

Editorial — 1.4.2022

Editorial 4/2022: Built Dreams

Is the ideal of living in a detached house a thing of the past or a solution for the future?

Column — 1.4.2022

Ecocatastrophe Requires Negative Ideas

Architects should get rid of the idealistic view that our task would be to find a solution to any problem, writes Julius Jääskeläinen.

Phenomena — 1.4.2022

Housing as a Solution

In cities worldwide, people are suffering the effects of a prolonged housing crisis. Housing as a Service has been presented as a solution, but who does it really benefit?

Panel — 1.4.2022

Which are the Criteria for an Ideal Home? – Housing Designers Share Their Insights

We asked four architects who work with housing design to send us an image of an ideal home or a good dwelling.