Finland Art, architecture and travel

Timber tower: Finland's first wooden high-rise wins the Wood Prize

An energy-efficient trio of multi-storey timber-frame flats in the Jyväskylä suburb of Kuokkala have won this year's Wood Prize, awarded by Finland's Wood Information Centre.

By Ali Morris • Last updated 28 October 22

Winning design: Moreau Kusunoki Architectes triumph in Guggenheim Helsinki competition

By Sam Rogers • Last updated 28 October 22

High rise: a chapel in a Helsinki suburb is a vaulting success

By Crystal Bennes • Last updated 27 October 22

Tour Yrjö Kukkapuro’s studio – a temple to the art of sitting down

Join us on a studio visit of Finnish interior architect and furniture designer Yrjö Kukkapuro

By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated 26 October 22

Helsinki Design Week 2016 reveals a Finland steeped in tradition, with an eye on its future

By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated 25 October 22

Helsinki Design Week 2013: the highlights

By Maria Sobrino • Last updated 25 October 22

Back to the future: Helsinki City Museum’s impressive new home

By Clare Dowdy • Last updated 25 October 22

Major renovation: Helsinki Art Museum reopens with blockbuster Ai Weiwei show

​The Helsinki Art Museum has reopened after a major renovation with a blockbuster show from Chinese artist Ai Weiwei

By Nick Compton • Last updated 21 October 22

Take a virtual reality tour of Alvar Aalto's Helsinki studio

Helsinki is betting big on its tech design scene as it looks ahead to a post-COVID world

By Elly Parsons • Last updated 21 October 22

Laura Seppänen creates a thoughtful design for Helsinki's newest restaurant

By Daven Wu • Last updated 20 October 22

Optimise your living space with this modular Finnish cabin design

A collaboration between architecture studio Puisto and design companies Made By Choice and Protos Demos, Space of Mind is a contemporary modular Finnish cabin providing a much needed opportunity to pause, think and make the most of our home experience

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 20 October 22

Nordic architecture explored in Share, a book about contemporary building

Discussions about Nordic architecture and contemporary practice meet in a new book by Artifice, Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture – The Nordic Countries

By Ellie Stathaki • Published 20 October 22

Wave House by Seppo Mäntylä is a Finnish log house with a twist

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 20 October 22

Avanto Architects designs a set of ‘matchbox’ houses in Finland

This small complex in Finland's Espoo comprises two detatched private residences arranged like ‘overlapping matchboxes', explains its creator, Avanto Architects

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 20 October 22

Studio Puisto

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 20 October 22

Story — Helsinki, Finland

By Micha van Dinther • Last updated 19 October 22

Hotel St. George opens in landmark 1840s building in Helsinki

By Daven Wu • Last updated 19 October 22

French cosmic disco and Italian mid-century design collide at Helsinki’s latest opening

By Warren Singh-Bartlett • Last updated 19 October 22

Reason to shimmy the night away in Helsinki

By Daven Wu • Last updated 19 October 22

Bar & Co — Helsinki, Finland

By Lauren Ho • Last updated 19 October 22

An artic theme park with surprisingly sleek accommodation

By Daven Wu • Last updated 19 October 22

The Harriniva Aurora Domes in Finland are the best place to stay when seeking the aurora borealis

By Daven Wu • Last updated 19 October 22

Intro — Kuopio, Finland

By Daven Wu • Last updated 19 October 22

Finnish lifestyle label Samuji has opened a new boutique in Helsinki

By Pe-Ru Keh • Last updated 19 October 22