We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing
That the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing
That the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it [...]
When I recently wrote about the three English language magazines from Finland, the ovi got in touch so I thought I’d write something for them seeing as I read their site quite often and it is nice to be able to contribute something however small and badly written. See my first article there, hopefully there [...]
(photo by georg)
The Architect Shigeru Ban has developed an exhibition of some 14 Alvar Aalto projects which will be showing at the Barbican in London (22 Feb ‘07 - 13 May ‘07). I hope this exhibition can be brought to Finland too so I can see it. I’ll have to make do with the review [...]
The Competition for every aspiring starchitect, and everyone else, just launched again Europan9 is here. European urbanity, sustainable city and new public spaces are the main themes. Finnish Europan has some interesting sites in Espoo, Vantaa (both in greater Helsinki) and Kotka on the South East coast which is redeveloping. Is there a potential tie-in [...]
I just noticed a new English language magazine now publishing here in and about Finland called freemagazine. So that makes three publications by my count (the ovi is pdf of website ony at the moment I think). The three are Six degrees the ovi freemagazine. All worth a checking out.
Update: Free magazine has [...]
