How Money Gives Shape to Our Lived Environment
In his new book, Matthew Soules discusses what happens to architecture when it becomes a medium of finance capitalist investment itself.
A Profusion of Animal and Human Ornamentation on the Buildings of Helsinki
Juha Ilonen's book makes one pay attention to the decorative themes and details in urban buildings that are often just busily passed in everyday life.
Can the Urban Structure Reduce the Need for Service Housing for the Elderly?
n 'Alternative' series architects improve the built environment with uncommissioned ideas. Sari Nieminen focusses on the city for the elderly.
Editorial 1/2022: Casino Chips
The opening move in the tower block game in Finland was made by architect Sigurd Frosterus one hundred years ago. Tower blocks are still emerging in plans and visions – but what kind of urbanity do they create?
A City That Is Growing towards the Sky
In recent years, large construction projects have brought changes to the cityscape of Tampere. On whose terms is new construction conducted?
Interpreting and Completing the Suburban Atmosphere
In a suburban residential area, what are the elements that determine how the place feels? Can the atmosphere of a place be created through design? Two architectural researchers explore the relationship between architect and place.
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.
Visual Essay: Nothing Decorative and Nothing Functional
Graphic designer Emery Norton studied the urban details found on a walk.
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?