Archive for June, 2011
Serlachius Competition Results
The art gallery Serlachius has just announced the reults of it’s international competition for a new gallery wing. MX_SI studio from Spain won with a really beautiful and tasteful entry. The results pdf is worth reading as there were quite a few good entries. I knew a few people who entered and they both put [...]
Conformity and Experimentation in Architecture some notes
Three weeks ago I attended my office Spring day at the Dipoli1 building in Otaniemi. It was my first time visiting this slightly less well known Finnish design classic. At the time it was built it was apparently controversial and a ‘brave’ building. I couldn’t really see it form the outside. It has a kind [...]
Helsinki is….
Helsinki is 1st in July/Aug Monocle Magazines most liveable city survey (see video) but 13th in ECA most expensive city survey. Update: and there is alot in Monocles weekly podcast about Helsinki, including an interview with Dan Hill of Sitra.
Finland Built Modern Libya
A nice article in HS about the Finnish construction industry in Libya through the 80′s which was as a market second only to Russia for them. There are lots of quotes here including a good one about having to remember about the different social and cultural structures they had to design for; The dwellings in [...]
Glancey Rips into Modern Helsinki
Helsingin Sanomat took Jonathan Glancey for a tour around Helsinki and published the results yesterday1 in the Sunday paper. He didn’t like the modern stuff. Not at all. Ruohlanti, Kamppi, Eiranranta, Töölönlahti all got criticised. This goes along with his luke warm criticism of the new Music Center from last month. All the modern stuff could [...]
Best Office
“We do have a shot at building the best office building in the world,” Jobs told the Council members, “Architecture students will come here to see this.” Ideally Apple wants to move into the campus in 2015. (via)
Slow Slide
A great post at bldgblog about slow landslides. For more than a month now, a “slow-motion landslide” near the New York/Vermont border has been dismantling a small town, day by day, square foot by square foot. These are natural unlike the slow moving destruction at Kiruna.