Interview

A Harmonious Addition to the Meilahti Hospital Campus

The latest addition to the Meilahti hospital campus has been fitted to a tight spot, yet it benefits from the stunning sea views.

Project Review

Metro Geography

With the recent completion of the final stations of the western metro extension, Länsimetro, the Helsinki metro now also runs through Espoo. When one part of a system like the metro undergoes change, the entire system simultaneously changes, muses Tommy Lindgren. He visited all the stations west of Lauttasaari.

Interview

Nature and Logistics

A designer furniture online store commissioned a logistics centre located along the Turku ring road. Design classics are being shipped around the world from a building that echoes the surrounding forest.

Project Review

New Adventure and Romance

The new entrance building of Helsinki Airport offers a memorable setting for departures and arrivals.

Project Review

New Geometry of the Ceiling

Suspended ceiling in timber at Helsinki Airport is refined by digital technology.

Interview

A Bridge to the Future

The bridge leading from the Turku city centre over the railway line to the Logomo cultural venue was designed as a convertible machine.

Book

An Introduction to Elissa Aalto

The first book about Elissa Aalto focuses on her work as an architect and leaves the person distant.

Book

A Comprehensive Disability Manifesto for Architecture

Accessibility is an inadequate reading of disability in architecture, sees David Gissen. The Architecture of Disability re-examines the history and theory of architecture through the lense of disability.

Book

A Solid Monograph on Juha Leiviskä’s Sensitive Architecture

The book published by the Museum of Finnish Architecture examines the career of architect Juha Leiviskä in the current century.