The Magazine for Swedish Architecture is Arkitektur. But they have an excellent weblog which is worth checking out, they name checked me, so thanks guys! Mostly in Swedish, I can get some sort of idea of the content of the site from my desktop translator although it churns out much rubbish, but its worth it [...]
I wrote a review of the Arctic Cities exhibition currently on at the Finnish Museum of Architecture in Helsinki over at the Ovi. The exhibition is about three cities in the North, Tromsø in Norway, Kiruna in Sweden which I’ve written about before, and Oulu in Finland. Also I took some photos.
Just over a year ago I posted about Ice Architecture. I’ve just now updated the map to show the location of the Ice Hotel and there are some great new photos over at ADD. I hope everyone had a great xmas & new year.
The Town of Kiruna in Sweden is cracking apart. Like an earthquake in slow motion the ground near Kiruna cracks and sinks in an ever widening circle which is beginning to tear apart the city. A huge Iron ore Mine to the west of the town has caused the earth to subside around the mine [...]
Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi is a funny bitter-sweet story of a boy growing up in the town of Pajala in the Arctic circle. The coming of age story of Matti in which each chapter is a short story or vignette which stands up to reading on its own. However when combined together [...]
Jugendsali has an exhibition running till currently showing off the talents of four architectural photographers. Jens Lindhe from Denmark, Jiri Havran from Norway, Åke E:son Lindman from Sweden and Jussi Tiainen from Finland. I particularly liked how Jens Lindhe subtly broke the mould of most architectural photography, it was more informal and the pictures were [...]
When the snow finally comes to Helsinki (the rest of Finland is often white weeks before) the landscape totally reverses and ground becomes lighter than the sky. This and the holiday season puts me in mind of the ice hotel which I have been dreaming of visiting since going into a glacier in the summer [...]
The Pinchouse(s) is not really a flatpack house but a predesigned and partly premade set of different house designs, a template house I guess. None of these are twee and just a short look through the website shows they embody high design principals. I am particularly interested by the blackhouse update to the viking longhouse [...]
