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Book — 1.1.2020

Unorthodox Displays of Empathy

A book on live-action role-playing as a design tool is the most recent endeavour of Trojan Horse collective. The book mixes experiences from the real world with obscure, fictional worlds brought in from the role-playing scene – and poses questions that challenge the conventional design mentality.

Book — 1.1.2020

A Labour of Love

In her first, genre-mixing book, Helmi Kajaste discusses architecture, cinema and architecture in cinema. Films try to persuade us that they are real, living, moving things when in actual fact they are just a series of still images.

Book — 1.1.2020

The Landscape Makers Featured

A recent release from Aalto ARTS Books brings together 46 interviews with landscape design professionals and provides a snapshot of where contemporary Finnish landscape architecture is at this moment.

Editorial — 1.1.2020

Editorial 1/20: On Common Land

What do togetherness, communities and participation mean for contemporary architectural practice? Do we need shared visions for the future?

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

A Townhouse in the Chain of Generations

The new building completing the frontage of the market square in Kotka forms the latest phase in the history of a plot whose ownership has been passed down from mother to daughter for already three generations.

User's Viewpoint — 1.1.2020

Farmhouse Living Room, Church and Dance Floor

Puuhi, a community space for informal encounters and cultural activities in the village of Soini, was born from a local initiative. A local yet internationally renowned architect Anssi Lassila was a natural choice for the job.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.1.2020

Campus for Connections

JKMM Archtects designed a new head office for Kesko Corporation in Kalasatama, Helsinki. The activity-based environment encourages encounters between the employees – and the building itself also positions itself to encounter the new city district being built around it.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

Culture in the Big League

Completed last year in Fuzhou, the cultural centre consists of five main functions: an opera house, concert hall, multifunctional hall, cinema and exhibition hall. Pekka Salminen, professor and architect, tells about the project and the activities of PES-Architects in China.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

An Office for the New Economy

Digital banking service Holvi decided to build new office premises in Elanto cooperative’s old headquarters in Kallio, Helsinki. The designers needed to create an image of what a new kind of bank could be, without forgetting the past.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

The Urban Power Station

Kalasatama Electricity Substation provides electricity to approximately 20,000 people in the Kalasatama, Kulosaari, and Suvilahti districts in Helsinki, yet also aims to create an inviting space for the citizens – with a surrounding metal wall designed for graffiti art.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.6.2019

Past and Future Luxury

The neo-Renaissance building in the Helsinki district of Ullanlinna has been has previously been used, among other things, as offices, but now the building has been restored to its original use as an apartment building.

Opinion Piece — 1.6.2019

Suburban Places at Urban Density

Suburban model. Drawing Lee Marable.

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

The Late-Capitalist City

As the murky ethical and societal implications of late-capitalism become ever clearer, is the compromise of our urban places a price worth paying for maintaining the current economic hegemony? Lee Marable examines the effects of late-capitalism on Kalasatama district in Helsinki.

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

Chapel Demolition

View to the main hall, 1970s. Photo Eero Suikki / Archive of the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

People — 1.6.2019

20 years of Exporting Danish Sustainable Architecture

3XN is one of the best-known Danish architectural firms in the world. What kind of approach to architecture anf business lies behind the firm's international expansion?

Stories

Unorthodox Displays of Empathy

A Labour of Love

The Landscape Makers Featured

Editorial 1/20: On Common Land

A Townhouse in the Chain of Generations

Farmhouse Living Room, Church and Dance Floor

Campus for Connections

Culture in the Big League

An Office for the New Economy

The Urban Power Station

Past and Future Luxury

Suburban Places at Urban Density

The Late-­Capitalist City

Chapel Demolition

20 years of Exporting Danish Sustainable Architecture

The Late-Capitalist City