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A giant wave standing on an old dock in the Finnish town of Kotka houses the Maritime Museum of Finland.

Facade of Ceramic House All Photos by Studio RAP / Riccardo De Vecchi Studio RAP is an architectural design company that brings computational design innovation to clients.

Meander from the Air Photo by Anders Portman Meander is an Apartment block in Helsinki designed by Steven Holl some 18 years ago in 2006 as a winning international competition entry but only finished in 2024.

The Book The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine I saw a reference somewhere online to Yuiri Slezkine’s The House of Government and thinking it was a book about a single building a giant 1931 block of flats in central Moscow opposite the Kremlin I ordered

Ariel View of Stadium - photo by Hannu Rytky For a country with pretty low density cities1 like Finland still has some excellent examples of urban design.

Exterior -Image © Wellu Hämäläinen It’s often quite hard to make direct comparisons as to the sustainability of different buildings in the industry as costs, supply chains, and methods of construction to name just a few things are all variable.

Our Lord In The Attic Is The Building on the left of the lane.

Tempe à Pailla from the air Although Eileen Gray designed over forty buildings in her career only two were built both by her and Tempe à Pailla is the other one.

Its always good to start a book with a bang and This Gaming Life does just that.

Part Elevation Photo from Drawing Matter (Hornbaekhaus) was built in 1923 and designed by the Architect Kay Fisker.

Helsinki Design Week also includes Open House Helsinki which opens up buildings and spaces around the city that are not usually open to the public.

The Däckhuset or Deckhouse in Kallebäk Sweden was built in 1960 and it looks fairly unremarkable.

Hammarby Sjöstad an early sustainable city development in Stockholm Sweden Hammarby from the air Overview I visited the area of Hammarby in September of 2011 and was really impressed by the attempt to build an urban eco-development that addressed every as…

photo by Pol Viladoms Many issues shared by people across the world come together in the problems of housing.

Were the Paris Olympics the Greenest Ever?

UC Santa Barbara had struggled recently to house all its students and Charlie Munger billionaire and philanthropist was ready to fund a new dormitory.

Status and Culture by David W.

Solar panels from about 20261 will have to be designed into every new build in Europe.

Notre Dame on Fire 2019.

So I watched Oppenheimer recently and about a year late!

Map of Age of Central Helsinki Buildings By Jani Hannén link Helsinki Region has a great open data website HRI where you can access various mapping data sets.

There is something I find beautiful about the Brutalist style.

Skateboarding Space and the City Architecture and the Body by Iain Borden Iain Borden effectively tells the history of the rise of skateboarding, board and boardpark history and the evolution of skateboarding itself.

Northern Shores by Alan Palmer, A history of the Baltic Sea and its Peoples.

Cities by John Reader John Reader takes us on a historical trip through the city starting in Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago and finishing at the present day taking a quick view at the usual suspects, London, Rome, Venice, New York and a few others.

Edge City by Justin McGuick Edge City published by Strelka in 2012 is a short summary of an architectural road trip by Justin McGuick through São Paulo which makes a survey of older and newer developments, of the states attempts at building for the influx…

Ponte City on the left.

Torre David photogtaphed by Iwan Bann The Tower of David or Centro Financiero Confinanzas was a vertical slum and an example of bottom-up urbanism like ..