Archive for March, 2009
New Finnish Embassy in Japan
Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki have won the design competition for a new Finnish Embassy in Tokyo. The project is notable for the semi-opaque all glass facade which is patterned. In so much as it conveys an atmosphere or even an imagined landscape by a layering through the different glazing it could be a great project. [...]
Dynamic Helsinki Website
The international real estate industry will gather in Cannes, March 10-13 for the MIPIM fair, I’d imagine it will be a sombre affair taking place as it is agaisnt a backdrop of a projected world recession. But Greater Helsinki is bringing an exhibition stand there and it is a historic time for the city as [...]
No New Building In Finland
No new private apartment building projects were started in Helsinki , and the equivalent of only three apartment blocks in the whole of Finland were begun between October last year and February this year according to HS. There is a cold wind blowing so button up!
Bad British Architecture
Bad British Architecture a new blog saying things that need to be said, really rudely, a new must read. I hate how noone ever talks about how bad British architecture really is. I hate the bastards who make these buildings. So here I am, taking the piss out of them.
Simulated Ice Field
Korkeasaari the island that is Helsinki Zoo the most northerly zoo in the world has made a very ambitious 100 million euro redevelopment plan designed by Beckmann-N’Thepe who have a great track record of innovative zoo design. Just look at their simulated environment for Vincennes, France. The photos show a kind of simulated ice field [...]
Ola Kolehmainen at Kiasma
Ola Kolehmainen, member of the Helsinki School a loose collective of artists, has an exhibition on at Kiasma at the moment. His work consists of heavily cropped photos of Modern Architecture, that instantly abstracts them and concentrates the qualities of space, light and surface. What I like about the pictures in particular is that by [...]