I had just 24 hours to explore Helsinki, Finland – and I set out to make the most of every minute. From iconic architecture ...

On a tour of southern Finland, seeing the enduring masterworks of architect Alvar Aalto. When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined ...

“The sauna is the foundation of Finnish equality.” It’s also the foundation of Finnish architecture: the ur-structure made, whenever possible, from the ur-material. Like their Nordic ...

Tampere is continuing the city’s forward-thinking development in the Station District. New master plan was presented to the ...

The city has just opened Oodi, a new central library designed by Finnish architecture firm ALA located opposite the Helsinki’s Parliament House on Finland’s 101th anniversary of independence. What ...

Sitting lightly in a densely built up region in Espoo, Finland, House K is a lesson in how to get a lot from a little. Sanaksenaho Architects' latest residential offering sits on a rocky, woody ...

Genuine architecture communicates before it is understood ... climate, and landscapes of Finland via an intense abstraction. He extended primary lessons of Aalto’s work into new expressive ...

Aerial view of proposal 96: Tyrsky (Courtesy Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design) Renderings for 96 Tyrsky show a building that’s jarringly similar to Moreau Kusunoki ...

When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined building must have looked like an emissary from the future, set down in a forest of fragrant ...