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Column — 1.3.2022

Posthumanism and the Perishing Architecture

The fields of architecture and building could learn from how the rest of the biosphere builds, suggests Panu Savolainen.

Project Review — 1.3.2022

Elemental Joy

Whilst Finlandia Hall is closed for renovation, a temporary, movable building will remain adjacent to it and offer a space for events. Despite its unrooted concept, the building forms an intimate connection to its environment, writes Lee Marable.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2022

Pikku-Finlandia’s Architect: ”We had just the right amount of ambition”

The temporary event centre, Pikku-Finlandia, built next to the Finlandia Hall during its renovation, has been designed in accordance with the principles of circular economy construction and reverse building design. It is also the first big completed project for three architecture students.

Project Review — 1.3.2022

An Oasis Along the Rapids

The re-designed riverside of Tikkurilankoski in Vantaa intertwines the cultural landscape with nature.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2022

A Pavilion for the Better World

Lahti was the European Green Capital in 2021, and this led to the construction of a pavilion that initially prompted debate on climate change in the heart of Helsinki and is now a focus point at a tiny suburban railway station.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2022

Inspired by Nature

Hiking structures in the Tampere region and the Urho Kekkonen National Park show how hiking shelters with long traditions can be updated to the 2020s.

Exhibition — 1.3.2022

Xenakis Centenary Exhibition in Paris

The centenary exhibition showcases Iannis Xenakis’s key artistic and theoretical breakthroughs within music and architecture.

Book — 1.3.2022

For the Love of Life

Eighteen small booklets contain the discussions of Pritzker Prize winning architect Peter Zumthor with seventeen different artists and experts.

Book — 1.3.2022

The Dark Side of the Garden

The encyclopedic book brings together a versatile collection of fragments related to gardening.

Editorial — 1.3.2022

Editorial 3/2022: On Nature’s Terms

The climate crisis and biodiversity loss will in the coming years force the building sector to radically overhaul its practices. At the same time it is appropriate to consider the relationship between nature and the built environment from more theoretical viewpoints, writes Kristo Vesikansa.

Project Review — 1.2.2022

Attuned

The former factory block in Helsinki’s Arabianranta district has over the course of a couple of decades been transformed into a cultural campus. The latest addition to the block, the new Soiva building, offers music education facilities for both a university and a conservatory.

Project Review — 1.2.2022

Timber Forms the Next Generation

In Finland, CLT structures have recently proven especially popular in buildings for education. For Philip Tidwell, the award-winning Hopealaakso Daycare Centre by AFKS architects carries traces of issues that designers have to solve when new material is integrated into conventional systems of design and construction.

Project Review — 1.2.2022

Posthumanism and the Perishing Architecture

Elemental Joy

Pikku-Finlandia’s Architect: ”We had just the right amount of ambition”

An Oasis Along the Rapids

A Pavilion for the Better World

Inspired by Nature

Xenakis Centenary Exhibition in Paris

For the Love of Life

The Dark Side of the Garden

Editorial 3/2022: On Nature’s Terms

Attuned

Timber Forms the Next Generation

Discreet Charm

At a Second Glance

Sanatoria in the Shadow of Paimio