Could the adoption of Finland’s architectural competition system offer a path towards consistently functional, beautiful and ...

In the lead-up to independence in 1917, Finnish writers, artists and musicians drew on their singular language and regional folklore to assert a distinctive national identity. Architects played ...

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 ...

One summer in the 1990s, I went to see the work of Alvar Aalto in Finland, on a sort of pilgrimage. I was a young architecture writer at the time, then married to a young architect; many architects ...

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 ...

Planned to open in 2030, the New Museum of Architecture and Design will focus on “democratizing the tools of design,” redefining Helsinki as a cultural destination. “Finland has a rich and ...

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 ...

For a country that invented the concept of saunas, Finland is often criminally overlooked on European visits. The capital city of Helsinki is full of rich culture, gorgeous architecture ...

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 ...