One of Finnish modern architect Alvar Aalto‘s famous designs is the Hand Grenade pendant light from 1952. Its sleek cylinder within a cylinder doesn’t look particularly like the explosive device, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book from the grandson of the celebrated Finnish architects draws on never-before-published letters and photographs to tell ...

I “discovered” Leiviskä’s work in 1991 through one of his ecclesiastical designs, the Myyrmäki Church and Parish Center at Vantaa outside Helsinki (1980–84). Genuine architecture communicates before ...

A rare and elusive architectural gem—a neon-bright space pod—is available for lease or sale in Perth, and is just one of a handful of Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s creations to remain intact ...

Finnish architect and wood aficionado Jaakko Torvinen was sitting in a Helsinki park with a friend one summer evening in 2023 when a man came up to him and asked if he was the designer of the city’s ...

Nearly a decade after a highly contentious scheme to establish a new Guggenheim location along Helsinki’s South Harbor was ultimately rejected, a fresh plan is now afoot to establish a destination ...

BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in ...

We explore the modernist wonders of an architect’s retreat and trace its enduring influence. Some 50 years later, Pia’s car is under the cottage’s parking canopy and her two grandchildren are playing ...