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Critical Thinking Wanted

How do the current, packed everyday life of students and education that focusses on work life skills fit together with the aim to educate critical thinkers? ask Matti Jänkälä, Svenja Lindner, Heljä Nieminen and Hilda Uusitalo, students of architecture at Aalto University.

Article

The Long Life of Regulation

Lauri Jääskeläinen charts the history of land use and building regulations in Finland, in anticipation of the reform of Land Use and Building Act.

Article

Tall, Wooden, Finnish

Finland, like elsewhere, has in recent years built more and more – and higher and higher – in wood. Both Puukuokka in Jyväskylä and Lighthouse in Joensuu are pioneers in Finnish wood building.

Article Collection

Finnish Architectural Review celebrates International Women’s Day

In celebration of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, we collected articles discussing specifically women and architecture in our magazine during the recent years.

Book

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

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?

Article

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.

Article

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.

Interview

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.