Article

Concept: Fluidity

Fluidity opens up a refreshing angle for everyone and anyone looking at a city, Tuulia Kivistö proposes.

Article

Social Movements, Saviours of Built Heritage?

For almost a couple of decades, the residents of the Meri-Rastila area in Helsinki have sought to influence the development of their daily environment. They are not the first ones to act due to concerns about changes taking place in a neighbourhood.

Article

Alternative: Architecture of Mobility Should Be Renewed

Re-organising urban mobility services would be an efficient way to combat biodiversity loss and climate change, Olli Hakanen envisages.

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.