Rebuilt in a computer for the aaltosvoices website (sorry its a bit flashy).
The Finnish Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939 was the design that marked Alvar Aalto’s international breakthrough. The structure was dismantled right after the Fair ended, just two years after it was completed…….First of all, the story goes that Alvar [...]
The NAI has an exhibition on now about the New Orleans flooding in which 6 design studios collaborated to propose ideas for the rebuilding of new orleans . They were MVRDV , UN Studio, West 8, Huff + Gooden Architects, Morphosis, Hargreaves Associates. They also seems to have recently aquired the back cataloge [...]
Finnish Europan Winners announced yesterday and they have even managed to build a couple unlike some places!
Estonia’s new art center KUMU will open on 18th February 2006, The first time Estonia has had a proper home for its nations art. It was designed by the Finnish Architect Pekka Vapaavuori who won the competition in 1994 but work only started later in 2002. Although when WWII broke out they were about to [...]
I recently went to Frankfurt on a business trip. I would have loved to see more and get a proper sense of the place but I ended up with only a bitterly cold night to have a quick look round. Such is the dislocation of coming from a meeting room called Barcelona in Helsinki to [...]
Cities By John Reader
Being currently housebound because of an ear operation I was able to get through this book quicker than usual. Anyway John Reader takes us on a historical trip through the city starting in Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago and finishing at the present day taking a quick view at the usual [...]
