Tag Archives: Finland
Nordic Voices
Nordic Voices is a weblog about literature in the Nordic countries. NV links to an article in the guardian about Estonian literature being translated into English and you could run the same argument in Finland both for and against.
Best place to live in Finland
A housing Website staged a survey to find the best place to live in Finland. Karjasilta in Oulu won, it’s a relatively suburban area of detached houses from the 40′s and 50′s the runners up are below, I’m not sure but I think they are mostly of the same suburban character with the only exception [...]
Newly Drawn
Nine up and coming Finnish Architecture practises have a book publication out called Newly Drawn – Emerging Finnish Architects (website). The firms involved are; Hollmén Reuter Sandman, Verstas, NOW, Anttinen Oiva Architects, Lassila Hirvilammi, Avanto, ALA, AFKS and K2S. The link to buy the book is here.
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Finnish Architecture.fi
Finnish Architecture.fi website has had a revamp and had added some new and much needed content. Hopefully it will now stay abreast of Finnish architeture news and be updated regularly unlike the old site. But where are the rss feeds? update: I checked back today (17.09.09) and they have a feed now. Nice work!
Finnish Stonehenge
New research has thrown light on a group of megalithic structures in the North of Finland suggesting they may be laid out according to astrological ideas.
Mårtensbro School
Playa Architects has won a competition for Mårtensbro School in Espoo. With a central open atrium space courtyard and varying levels curved in form on plan and section it looks very promising. Click on the image for a slideshow.
Svenskar
The Swedish speaking finns or Svenskar constitute an important minority in Finland, but their genetic origins are a little uncertain (see wikipedia), there being much argument about how much immigration from Sweden happened and how much assimilation into the language of government was made. A study just made appears to confirm that there was a [...]
Finland Heroin Country
That little old granny crossing Mannerheimintie infront of you may just have been a heroin addict. Between 1930 and 1950 Finland consumed more heroin per capita than anywhere else on earth. In Northern Europe we were really the odd men out. Finnish heroin consumption was many times higher than that of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and [...]
Snow Angels
We went up to Levi in Lapland last weekend. Being in the last great European wilderness was breathtaking, it’s a beautiful place a different world away from the bustle of typical human existence. The thing though that will stick most in my mind most was when we were just outside the hotel lobby on the [...]
Renewable Energy and Housing
I’m actively trying to seek out new information about designing as environmentally sustainable buildings and systems as possible so I dug up something I’d tagged a long time ago meaning to write it up but somehow never managed to do until now. The Vaasa Housing Fair which ran from 11.07.08 to 10.08.08 last year is [...]
White Death by Robert Edwards
White Death by Robert Edwards Amazon uk | usa As a British citizen I was brought up with the popular blockbuster WWII films and jingoistic historical notion of WWII being a kind of good versus evil battle. The idea is still somewhat preserved now with the Third Reich being the last word in totalitarian regimes, [...]
Nimipäivä
It’s our Daughter’s Name Day today (Nimipäivä), something only our neighbour remembered because coming from the U.K. the practice of name days has died out (if it was ever alive!). When I was growing up I associated it with saints days in predominately Catholic countries. It seems I was slightly wrong and at least Orthodox [...]
Helsinki Biennale 2008
Helsinki Biennale 2008 is going to be a World Fair. We have secretly built pavillions and all that shit in the cellar of Design Museum Helsinki. The World Fair will take place 25.10.2008–25.1.2009. It will be noisy, magnificent, and über gigantic. More than 50 most interesting artists from Finland and over 100 of our favorite [...]
Living Room for Helsinki
Juha Ilionen a Finnish Architect has a website of 31 proposals for the centre of Helsinki. Living room Helsinki is all in Finnish but covers a series of different interventions into the fabric of the centre to improve it and create or add to existing public space with a variety of functions. Some are larger [...]
Finnish Architecture 0607
Every two years the Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA) puts on an exhibition of the best 25 buildings by Finnish Architects over the previous two years. 0607 Started last week in Helsinki and is shortly opening in Paris in their Architecture centre also, but I have assembled a guide to each building in the exhibition [...]
Google street view now in Finland