House Spaak | AVARRUS Architects
House Spaak is an exceptional building project where historical and modern wooden architecture combines. The new terraced house comprises an idyllic entirety with Konstaapeli Spaak’s log house which ...
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A•lava in Helsinki | Aalto University Wood Program
Designed and constructed by a team of 20 students from the Aalto University Wood Program, the pavilion provides a sheltered stage for Annantalo, an art center for young people and families in the ...
Lehtikangas Elementary School | Alt Architects
Designed by alt Architects, The first thing one sees when approaching the Lehtikangas Elementary School is a canyon-like space built with grey brick robust and distinguished, yet inviting. As one ...
Health Clinic in Ruukki | alt Architects + Karsikas
New Health clinic in Ruukki is a sympathetic small-scale public building. Crescent form creates a small square in front of it's entrance and makes it possible to group dental care, health care, and ...
Seafarers’ Centre Helsinki | ARk-house Architects
The plot for the projected Seafarers’ Centre Helsinki is situated by the main entrance to the Vuosaari harbour, on the northern corner of the area. In practice the building location is the only point ...
Snøhetta Wins Competition for New Hotel on Helsinki’s Waterfront
Oslo-based design office Snøhetta wins an invited competition, organized by AB invest A/S, the City of Helsinki, and the Finnish Association of Architect, to design a new hotel on the Hakaniemi ...
Löyly | Avanto Architects
Designed by Avanto Architects, Hernesaari area is a former industrial area on the Helsinki seashore that will be built into a residential area. New use is developed for the area already now while ...
Transformation of Helsinki’s Töölönlahti Bay into “Citizens’ Park” | COBE and Lundén Architecture
Citizens' Park, COBE and Lundén Architecture, the Danish-Finnish collaboration that has previously worked together on Tampere's Transport Hub, has revealed a plan to revitalize the Töölönlahti bay ...
Venice Biennale 2012: Gateway | Foster and Partners
Venice Biennale 2012 "Public space is more important than any individual building, which we often take for granted", stated by Norman Foster on his encyclopedic video installation in the gateway of ...
Shortlist for 2015 Finlandia Prize of Architecture Announced
The second year of the Finlandia Prize of Architecture is heralded by this new shortlist. The prize was founded in 2014 by the Finnish Association of Architecture, which awards "...contemporary ...
Guggenheim Helsinki | BAT Architecture
Guggenheim Helsinki, daughter of the Baltic, Helsinki emerges from the forests of Finland to face her archipelago and the ever-present sea. This northern pearl seeps to her harbors on the Bay of ...
Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki Competition | Top 5 Picks by Arch2O
Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki Competition top 5 picks narrowed down from 1715 entries by our intern Nadia Asali 1. This project is playful when it comes to dealing with the connection of the ...