Editor’s Note: Laura Houseley is the editor-in-chief of Modern Design Review. Is there any other nation that loves its libraries as much as Finland? In 2016, the Finnish Ministry of Education and ...

JKMM Architects’ Kirkkonummi Library adapts an existing building with a copper-clad facade, creating a new community center for the town of 40,000. Located approximately 20 miles west of Helsinki, ...

In 2023, approximately 8.63 library visits were made per inhabitant in Finland. Physical library visits decreased significantly between 2020 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 restrictions. In the period ...

Helsinki: What do you give the world's most literate country for its 100th birthday? For Finland's politicians and public, the answer was simple: a vast, state-of-the-art library, a new "living room ...

The new Helsinki Central Library Oodi - Finland's largest and arguably most lavish - opened its doors to the public on Wednesday. Although it's technically a library, it goes far beyond merely a place ...

There’s nothing like getting lost in a good book, but one reader in Finland seems to have taken that to an extreme. Staff at a public library in Helsinki were rather surprised when a copy of Arthur ...

Finland is a small country with a bit of a karaoke problem—in Helsinki and elsewhere, Finns love to get down with a beer, an audience and a microphone. Now, writes Finnish news outlet YLE, the ...

Imagine having two dresses to iron and some family photos to print. For many, it will seem odd to choose a public library to do both for free. But in Helsinki, Finland’s capital, it’s a reality. The ...

JKMM Architects has restored and transformed the Oulu Central Library Saari in Oulu, Finland. Oulu Central Library Saari is the restoration and transformation of a protected Rationalist library in ...

At a time when the book reading culture is declining across the world, how does one country keep it alive and thriving? The success story of Helsinki Central Library Oodi in Finland since it opened ...

Generally speaking, the average number of library books borrowed in Finland slightly declined in the period from 2013 to 2020. However, after 2020 the average number of borrowed books started to ...

Copy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Refugees was due to be returned to Helsinki’s central library month after USSR invaded Finland A book borrowed from a Helsinki library has been returned – 84 years overdue ...