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 ...

Finnish architecture of the 19th century has made a mark in the world for its influence on Jugendstil (Art Nouveau), Nordic Classicism, and Functionalism. The two most notable Finnish modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Entries came from far and wide, with the majority focusing on the latest trend in Finnish architecture – prefabricated buildings. Among the bids was a design from a newly-married couple who had ...

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 ...