If Scotland beat on Georgia at Hampden Park this Saturday they will become Football World Champions at least according to the Unofficial Football Championships. The UFWC is based on a knock out system like that of boxing where the holder keeps the title until beaten. Current holders are Georgia but Scoland can become Champions for [...]
Finnish Designer Timo Niskanen was runner up in a design to design a shelter in a cart. It enables a homeless person to carry around his belongings with him and have somewhere to sleep at night. He got funding and has brought his design onto the streets of Helsinki. It is a great way to [...]
I’m slow off the blocks with this but it’s too important for me to skip, the Open Architecture Network has launched where anyone can upload a building design and all the documentation in order to build it. It is licenced under a creative commons developing world licence so designs can be utilised in the areas [...]
I wrote a review of the Arctic Cities exhibition currently on at the Finnish Museum of Architecture in Helsinki over at the Ovi. The exhibition is about three cities in the North, Tromsø in Norway, Kiruna in Sweden which I’ve written about before, and Oulu in Finland. Also I took some photos.
(photograph by Dmitry Beliakov)
For the one-time gangster who built it, it is nothing less than “the eighth wonder of the world”. The less charitably disposed dismiss it as a glorified barn, fire hazard and eyesore. But on one thing everyone agrees: Nikolai Sutyagin’s home is certainly different. Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in [...]
