Posts tagged “Finland”
Schooling from two perspectives
A couple of links first about the Finnish School system in the Atlantic. The answers Finland provides seem to run counter to just about everything America’s school reformers are trying to do. Compare this with an article in the Guardian today US Schools with their own police. More and more US schools have police patrolling [...]
B.I.G. in Levi
B.I.G. has won a limited competition for a new Ski resort in Levi in the North of Finland. With a skiable roof and a looping circular plan. Having been to a few Finnish ski resorts including Levi it will be nice to see something different than faux swiss chalet for a change. (via)
Timber Construction
Certainly Housing Construction in Finland has a few characteristics that most definitely don’t set it apart from other countries. It is conservative, standardised and utilises prefabrication and concrete to a large degree. Some things are harder to change than others but one thing that just might be changing for the better is in the replacement [...]
Finnish Wine
The most northerly wine in the world is produced in Olkiluoto in Finland1 with the help of nuclear powered waste water. But what I find more interesting is that Finland actually has a small network of farms making their own wine from Finnish berries (Blackcurrent, Blueberry, Whitecurrent, Cloudberry). Who’d have guessed that there is a [...]
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 [...]
That Goal
Mikael Granlund goal against Russia in the 2011 Ice Hockey World Championship Semi Final.
Finland in Stereo
Here are two links to I think very differing reports into the state of Finland now and its’ prospects for the future. They are both book size and I haven’t read them yet, but for now I’ll post about them with a quote from each preface and come back with a review of both a [...]
Libeskind in Tampere
Daniel Libeskind has been chosen to design the new Tampere central arena, this follows on from his masterplanning of the arena and business park and commercial deck for the centre of Tampere which he had already made. Foreign Architects have really not had an easy time of building in Finland although some competitions have been [...]
Finnish Architecture 0809
Finnish Architecture stages a Biennial Exhibition of the best in Finnish Architecture and this year 0809 starts its tour in Helsinki before going around the globe. It’s a good chance to look at some great projects, photos and models, step back and survey the progress made and the potential going forward. The exhibition catalogue this [...]
Finnish Building Regulations to be Updated
The Finnish Building Regulations are going to be updated from 2012, the main thrust being improving energy efficiency. I believe that Finnish Regulations in this area are somewhat behind those of the rest of Scandinavia. I will see if I can get up to date examples it might make an interesting comparison. Anyway the stated [...]
Google street view now in Finland
Google Street View came to Finland this week, and the coverage looks really good, although there should really be a winter version as well as a summer one here.
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.
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.