Architectural student Heikki Muntola has won first prize in the Helsinki Townhouse competition with his proposal titled [tabula rasa] by a unanimous vote of the jury.
Is Helsinki more creative than other cities, and what makes Helsinki creative? A new study reviews creative Helsinki from the perspective of the preferred locations of both artists and IT professionals in terms of living and working.
The summer exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture presents some of the most notable Finnish architecture from 2008-09, continuing on a biennial Museum tradition now in the fourth edition. Finnish Architecture 0809 displays 25 projects that together offer a broad cross-section of current Finnish architecture, ranging from small to large projects – from summer houses and single-family homes to entire urban areas.
One of the grand names of Finnish design, Oiva Toikka (born 1931) is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a designer for Iittala. In honour of the event, Design Museum in Helsinki has organized a major retrospective of Toikka’s work as its summer exhibition.
Finland’s biennial Millennium Technology Prize has been awarded to Professor Michael Grätzel from Switzerland for his third generation, low cost, dye-sensitized solar cells.
The Millennium Technology Prize is a tribute to life-enhancing technological innovations. The prize awards technologies that have a positive impact on the quality of life and are based on humane values.
The direction is clear: we are facing a situation where digital and virtual dimensions are integrated into the physical, built environment and “real life.”
Design and the approach to design have changed strongly in the last few decades. What was formerly a playground for artists and bel esprits, is nowadays its own economic sector – and more!
