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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.

Project Review — 1.1.2020

A Paradigm Shift

Mikko Summanen visits the Jätkäsaari Comprehensive School, which is one of the first school buildings in which also spatial solutions support the new pedagogical objectives of the newest Finnish national curriculum. It is also AOR Architects’ first public building to be realised.

People — 1.1.2020

Nordic Voices

The Nordic Works collective is well-known for the participatory urban design method they have developed. After having operated in various parts of Finland for more than seven years, the collective is now looking abroad.

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Can We Share Our Way to Sustainability?

The sharing economy has grown into a major new trend, and the concept of sharing is now beginning to extend to housing too. Used cleverly, it could be an excellent way to deliver sustainable urban planning and housing design, suggests Annamari Vesamo.

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Romance and Cosmic Connections

For Mika Savela, the design competition for the Annex to the National Museum of Finland concluded in late 2019 highlights questions regarding the relationship between architecture and the story of a nation.

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Flipside of an Activity-Based Office

An activity-based office increases interaction and creates innovations – or perhaps not. Virve Peteri, Academy Research Fellow, has studied workspaces of the 2010s. What kind of effects does an activity-based office have on working?

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Manifestos on Sharing in Housing Design

How could the ethos of sharing be reflected in housing design? Katja Maununaho examines integrated housing projects in Central Europe, where the creation of communality and sharing is already evident.

Column — 1.1.2020

On Sharing

Architecture collective Assemble, based in London, centres collaborative and cooperative ways of working, but it doesn't mean that the member would want the same thing. In her column, Jane Hall talks about the collective's working methods.

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?

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

The Curious OOO

Mark Foster Cage Architects, Guggenheim Helsinki competition proposal, 2014. The proposal was never submitted to the competition.

Exhibition — 1.6.2019

The Poetic Potential in Structures

Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 tackled the multifaceted relationship of poetry and rationality in architecture. Marianna Wahlsten visited the Triennale opening.

Phenomena — 1.6.2019

On Doughnuts, Definitions, and the Troubles with Exhibiting

This autumn, the Oslo Architecture Triennale focussed on the problems of continuous growth. Dubravka Sekulić writes about her thoughts at the Triannale.

Exhibition — 1.6.2019

Le Chat Doré as a Stage Setting for Modern Life

The café Le Chat Doré was Birger Carlstedt and Karl Malmström's interpretation of the 1920s atmosphere. The reconstruction of the café is currently on display at the Amos Rex art museum.

Panel — 1.6.2019

Ecological Favourites

We asked a group of architects working in Finland to name an architecture project that has recently inspired them in the ecological sense.

Editorial — 1.6.2019

Editorial 6/19: The Long Run

Although the impact of economic trends on architectural practice is very real, as a profession, we seem not too keen on looking into the structures of the economy.