Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interior view of Paimio Sanatorium, designed by Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto in 1929 and completed in 1933 as a ...

The plastic Futuro, unveiled in 1968, became one of Finland’s most unusual exports. Discover the story of a design classic.

Is your ultimate summer fantasy a shingled pile on Nantucket? A glass-walled box facing the Pacific in Malibu? Something cavernous and sleek behind a high hedge in the Hamptons? There are as many ...

All in all, there were 624 total entries for one of the most anticipated international architecture competitions in recent memory, but only five have advanced to phase two. “We are immensely grateful ...

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 ...

Legendary midcentury architect Alvar Aalto is still winning prizes—with a little help from some contemporary firms. The Finnish Association of Architects announced that its prestigious Finlandia Prize ...

Read the original version in Spanish here. On November 21, we will present the book Raili and Reima Pietilä: The Dipoli Project. This engaging yet accessible Spanish-language volume on the Finnish ...

For the past eight years, Finland has topped the World Happiness Report, a landmark annual survey of the state of global happiness ranking over 150 countries according to their happiness levels, with ...

PAIMIO, Finland, July 26 (Reuters) - A sanatorium designed to foster a soothing environment to help tuberculosis patients recover was among a series of sites by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto to join ...