Where is the centre of Helsinki anyway? Hesingin Sanomat does a quick study to find out. Speaking for myself before I lived here it was under the Stokmann clock. But if I had to choose a single place to stand now the decision would be harder, you would probably see me walking round in circles [...]
I saw the Macintosh Lecture by Andrew Macmillan former head of the Glasgow School of Art yesterday, who made a good case for Rennie Macintosh being one of the instigators of many of the elements of the modern movement. His architecture is individualistic, fascinating and at times wonderful, however I think he represents the end [...]
Alain de Botton
has a new book coming out very soon called the Architecture of Happiness also there are some video clips from the Documentary he made based on the book called The Perfect Home. Its not often that a major mainstream writer who is not an Architect devotes a book to the subject , he’s [...]
The Art Office has an installtion called the cylinders a set of different scale interactive scultures which looks good, reminds me of desert roses which give this installation a real edge in its desert setting. They have a blog to.
We recently went to Hvitträsk so I thought it only right to blog it here. Hvitträsk was built between 1901–1903 by architects Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen. In 1900 at the Paris World Exhibition they had made an instant international name for themselves with their Finnish Pavilion although only just out [...]
