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 ...

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 ...

In a landscape full of clear blue lakes and deep green forests, it is the old redbrick buildings that tell the story of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Avanto Architects and Joanna Laajisto have designed a logistics centre for retailer Finnish Design Shop that features warm timber, a foraged-food restaurant for staff and visitors, and views of ...

The new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki, Finland, is planned to open in 2030 and will combine the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki. These institutions were ...

Competition Area Map (Courtesy Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design) “The competition brief for Finland’s new National Museum of Architecture and Design is an ambitious ...

There's plenty of art to feast your eyes on in these four very different coffee table books. Presented in reverse chronological order, we move back in time from Art is Art — a fabulous ...

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 ...