Architecture Archives

Helsinki as you’ve never seen it before

Watch it here: We talk to the creator of an amazing video and social-media hit that flies you over Helsinki with a quadcopter.

Helsinki’s wooden Chapel of Silence, designed to promote wellbeing, quietly attracts attention in the middle of the city.

New lifestyle choices: A Finnish family builds a home where several generations can live comfortably under the same roof.

The newly built Saunalahti School shows that in Finnish education, better architecture contributes to better schooling.

Pioneering projects in Finnish architecture are earning global attention and setting new trends.

Just outside Helsinki, Haltia Finnish Nature Centre forms a showcase like no other for Finland’s wilderness and nature.

We try out a fun, new smartphone app for rediscovering landmark buildings by Alvar Aalto in the Finnish capital area.

Helsinki has been awaiting a real concert hall since composer Jean Sibelius put Finland on the map as a music nation.