Posts tagged “helsinki”
Living Harbour
Danish Architects Lundgaard & Trandberg winning proposal for a ‘Living Harbour’ in the Telakkaranta area, Hietalahti docks, Helsinki. This is part of the old dock area which now is mostly empty and being rebuilt. This is the year that continued the small but growing trend that started I think in 2010 in which foreign Architects actually have a [...]
South Harbour Results Back
Helsinki’s South Harbour competition has posted the entrants on the web, the results come later. There is alot to chew over here not least that this is the area where the proposed Guggenheim has been proposed to be located, and probably the most controversial development area in Finland right now. You can vote and leave [...]
Helsinki Dreaming of Tall Buildings
There are a spate of proposed skyscrapers proposed in the Helsinki area at the moment. The most notable of a mostly bland bunch is the still ongoing planning of the Pasila area and now a 33 storey hotel in Jätkäsaari. This hotel design by Davidsson Tarkela is financed by Arthur Buchardt the Norwegian investor who was [...]
Tinkercad
A Helsinki based project called Tinkercad allows you to make 3d drawings which you can then 3d print directly online, all from your web browser. The concept is lovely, simple and integrated. (via)
Timber Construction in Finland
Congratulations go to Sitra and HDL there for helping to reshape the fire regulations in Finland. Previously although Finnforest has a 5-storey office and there are some 3 to 4 storey buildings with wooden frames in Finland you couldn’t really go higher. But now the revision of the regulations has prompted SRV and Stora Enso [...]
Helsinki Library Competition
It’s been long expected, but finally announced, there will be an international competition to design Helsinki Library beginning of 2012. The site is in Töölönlahti, in the area between the Makasiinipuisto park and the Töölönlahdenkatu street. update: there is now a website to keep everyone updated about the project. Not to mention Facebook page and twitter [...]
Guggenheim Redux
A couple of bloggers I follow report on last weeks interview in HS about the Guggenheim proposal in Helsinki. JHJ & Arkkivahti. Following on from my post about the Guggenheim, its clear that the city are serious. But if I was to make a crazy guess it would be that the Katajanokka site, important and [...]
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.
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 [...]
South Harbour Competition
The south Harbour right at the centre of Helsinki is subject of an open international design competition running until september of this year, see southharbour.fi. This is the most difficult, controversial area to develop in Finland at the moment. Most everyone agrees that it needs a major overhaul but what to do? Since the Herzog [...]
Locating the Guggenheim
So the news that Helsinki and the Guggenheim foundation are making a feasability study together to bring a Guggenheim to Helsinki has had a little time to sink in. Allowing first reactions to fall away and think about the different scenarios that a Guggenheim coming to Helsinki might produce will not only help shape our [...]
Guggenheim May Come to Helsinki
Yesterday Helsinki announced it has commissioned a study from the Guggenheim Foundation into the feasibility of opening a Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki. Of course it would raise the city profile and bring in money and tourism but it also strikes me as not something that will easily sit in the current art and design culture [...]
Tailwind
Firstly Happy New Year and lets start out with a video which anticipates the best for Helsinki over the next 15 years or so. Tailwind is the Architectural view of Helsinkis’ next step. It shows what Helsinki will do with its coastline now the old dock area has been moved, giving back the city in [...]
Helsinki Infoshare
Helsinki region now has a website Helsinki Region Infoshare which is going to be a hub for publishing information about the city region over the next few years until I guess the cities and regions take this job over for themselves. Statistical information of all kind will be published here , so it should be [...]
Open House Helsinki 2010
Open House Helsinki 2010 is running from 1st to 4th September, again it’s part of Helsinki Design Week which looks better than ever.