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Designer's Viewpoint — 1.1.2022

How Is Experience Connected to Urban Design?

The importance of social and cultural sustainability is often talked aboutout, but these values are not visible in the data that is provided for urban designers as a basis for their work. Harris-Kjisik Architects decided to collect this data themselves, when the development of the Itäkeskus district began.

Essay — 1.1.2022

Visual Essay: Nothing Decorative and Nothing Functional

Graphic designer Emery Norton studied the urban details found on a walk.

Opinion Piece — 1.1.2022

The New Perimeter Block Requires a New Kind of Thinking

In recent decades, urban development projects have increasingly been based on a perimeter block structure. One hundred years ago, modernists condemned this typology as dark and cramped. So what is different this time?

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

Erik Bryggman and the Turku Cityscape

Erik Bryggman is particularly well known for his individual buildings. His work, however, demonstrates also a clear approach to urban planning.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.1.2022

On the Drawing Board: Three Examples of the Circular Economy

The circular economy can be promoted through land use planning, and not just individual construction projects, states architect Aura Pajamo from the Muuan design agency.

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

Canal City Shaped by Wind and Waves

Ranta-Tampella, a canal district for 4,000 residents is being built in Tampere. In constructing the area, special emphasis has been placed on public outdoor spaces.

Project Review — 1.1.2022

A Non-Place Transformed

Keilaniemi, the hub of company headquarters situated on the border of Espoo and Helsinki, is changing from a car-dominated district to a pedestrian one. Changing ideals have materialised in the creation of a new square.

Visions — 1.1.2022

Alternative: Yes in my backyard

ow to densify a post-war neighborhood to have a wider range of dwelling types and to encourage walking and cycling instead of car traffic?

Book — 1.1.2022

Feminist City – A Place for All?

In her recent book Feminist City, Leslie Kern unpacks intersectional perspectives to urban planning and elucidates the need to re-examine the planning profession.

Phenomena — 1.5.2021

Messages from the Past

Spurred on by the climate crisis, the philosophy of circular economy is changing the aesthetics of architecture. With more and more old building components being recovered and reused, we also need new concepts and methods.

Phenomena — 1.5.2021

How Should the Old Be Complemented?

Modern or traditional? We invited three experts to discuss how the debate on architectural styles could be brought to present day.

Editorial — 1.5.2021

Editorial 5/2021: The Dilemma of Continuity

What kind of methods for infill development should we use in Finnish city centres?

Book — 1.5.2021

Idea and Facade

itten by Jari Järvelä is based on Aino Marsio-Aalto's life.

Book — 1.5.2021

Sigurd Lewerentz – A Double Serving

Two new books have recently been published on the most internationally renowned Swedish modern architect. One of them showcases a single building, the other attempts to shed light on Lewerentz’s life and architecture as a whole.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.5.2021

The Power of Expression

The new electricity substation and power line introduce a new, sculptural layer to the national landscape of the Imatrankoski Rapids.