August 31, 2005 – 12:40 pm
(Rating 4/5) ISBN: 952-5195-20-1 Language: Finnish/English
Publisher: MFA From Wood to Architecture presents 17 projects from around Finland which use wood in different ways. Wood is perhaps the fundamental building material of Finnish architecture and recently has enjoyed a new life being used more and more again not only in traditional ways but also as [...]
August 30, 2005 – 12:41 pm
A wise old man once told me, if you’re looking for someone to have sex with, you live in the city; if you’ve got someone to have sex with, you live in the suburbs. Sometimes I think it may be as simple as that.
the article this quote is from is actually about density in cities [...]
August 26, 2005 – 12:39 pm
For the Architect or product designer it can still be quite hard to track down products on the web if you don’t know exactly what you are looking for, but one website materialexplorer is really useful. You can search by type or property (if you want something soft and fluffy for instance!) [...]
August 22, 2005 – 12:39 pm
We went to the Olympic stadium on the last Friday of the 2005 World athletics championships. The Venue of Helsinki and the stadium was a last minute venue after London pulled out, and although they lost money they also didn’t do much in the away of upgrading the stadium beforehand. I was reminded about this [...]
August 19, 2005 – 12:38 pm
The web is full of new things to sign up for, some more or less usefull. This is my favourite for a long time though…You can sign up here to be a zombie extra in ‘the best dutch zombie movie not yet made’. Technically I think you’ll actually be a German-football-hooligan-nazi-zombie but well you will [...]
August 19, 2005 – 12:37 pm
Zaha Hadid has been in the press this week in a very interesting article both about her and her office. She is up for the 2005 Stirling Prize, and the bets are already going on. Have your say who will win at archiseek. Early betting here and for some further gossip on Hadid (inded any [...]
August 12, 2005 – 12:37 pm
A design district has been ‘launched’ in Helsinki. That there was one already is self evident by just walking through that bit of the old town. You can download the pdf from the finnishdesign website although not from the english side! I have been noticing the same thing as Darren that finnish websites are often [...]
August 8, 2005 – 12:35 pm
A good place to start if you are unfamiliar with Current Finnish Architecture is Jussi Tiainen’s photography. He has photographed almost all of the best current architecture around in finland. Some more of his work is posted here. You can look at his books here.
August 4, 2005 – 12:35 pm
Caterina fake of flickr has a piece on Container housing This is a fantastic use for them as not only do they look cool, but they could have a very relevant use in the 3rd world. See Squattercity and you will see a projection on 3 billion! people living in shanty towns by 2050. I [...]
