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The Pool – The Origin of Pool Skateboarding

Rene Submissions — Tue, 07 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000

The Pool series of four exhibitions, to be opened at the Aalto2 Museum Centre on 18 May 2024, will bring together Alvar Aalto’s architectural heritage, international skateboarding culture, and rap and hip hop culture. The three exhibitions themed around skateboarding are linked by the design of the swimming pool at the Villa Mairea, by Alvar Aalto, and its impact on international skateboarding culture.

The exhibition From the Surf to the Sidewalk shows how the free-form design of the Villa Mairea swimming pool, by Alvar Aalto, found its way to the United States and how a new phenomenon of urban culture emerged

Hospital Nova / JKMM Architects

Collin Chen — Fri, 21 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The Finnish hospital sector had been stuck for a long time, suffering from aging hospital facilities and a lack of new healthcare models. The old Jyväskylä hospital in central Finland was a prime example. Hospitals needed to be rethought and research was an effective way to begin the process of thinking outside the box. In 2012, Hospital Nova became a real project with JKMM selected as architects. Construction began in 2016 and was completed in 2020. Patients were admitted this year. What is unique about Hospital Nova is that, in terms of both functional concept and building type, it has been designed entirely from first principles. The first new-build general hospital to open in Finland since the 1970s, Hospital Nova balances the clinical requirements of an innovative next-generation hospital with an intuitive design sensibility inspired by surrounding Finnish nature.

Albertinpiha / JKMM Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 01:00:00 +0000

JKMM have completed a new housing scheme called Albertinpiha in Jyväskylä, the largest city in central Finland known for its early and later period Alvar Aalto buildings. The scheme is in the Kangas quarter, a former paper mill area close to the city center and is part of a 120 000m2 development of the area planned to house ca. 5000 people.

Puukuokka Housing Block / OOPEAA

Fernanda Castro — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:00:00 +0000

Puukuokka is the first eight-story heigh wooden apartment building in Finland. Developed in collaboration with Lakea, it is an energy-efficient trio of multi-story timber-framed flats in the Jyväskylä suburb of Kuokkala, neighboring the Kuokkala church also designed by OOPEAA.

Schauman & Nordgren Architects Wins Competition for "City of Gardens" Masterplan in Finland

Patrick Lynch — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:30:00 +0000

Schauman & Nordgren Architects has been announced as the winners of an open competition to redesign the old industrial area of Kangas in Jyväskylä, Finland. The winning proposal, titled “Kangas - City of Gardens,” seeks to build off of the success of a recently completed creative campus located within former paper factory by transforming the surrounding neighborhood into a vibrant live/work district containing over 5,000 new homes, 2000 new workplaces and a new educational campus facility.

Villa Muurame / Marco Casagrande

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:00:00 +0000

Villa Muurame is a wooden 3-story single-family home by Lake Jyväsjärvi in Jyväskylä, Finland. The spatial elements of the house (approx. 3m wide, 7.8 longa and 3.1 high) were pre-fabricated during the winter in the Muurametalot housing factory in Karunki, Finnish Lapland and the elements were erected in Jyväskylä after the snow had melted. The timber used is extremely slow grown and high quality Lappish spruce and pine.

Alvar Aalto Design Seminar

Rene Submissions — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 08:30:00 +0000

The summer’s most anticipated design and architecture event – the 8th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar, 27–28.8.2016 – brings together design professionals, students and design fans from around the world.

This year’s theme, MAXIMAL I MINIMAL, is an appeal on behalf of high-quality design. The event will be chaired by designer and interior architect Simo Heikkilä, who challenges participants and the twelve speakers to consider the choices made in design work and the sustainability of those choices.

Speakers at the Alvar Aalto Design Seminar will be Jonas Bohlin, Richard Hutten, Jouko Järvisalo, Max Lamb, Hans Lensvelt, Cecilie Manz, Kaoru Mende, Päivi

AD Classics: Jyväskylä University Building / Alvar Aalto

Luke Fiederer — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:00:00 +0000

Jyväskylä, a city whose status as the center of Finnish culture and academia during the nineteenth century earned it the nickname “the Athens of Finland,” awarded Alvar Aalto the contract to design a university campus worthy of the city’s cultural heritage in 1951. Built around the pre-existing facilities of Finland’s Athenaeum, the new university would be designed with great care to respect both its natural and institutional surroundings.

Exhibition: Paimio Sanatorium – Light, air and health

Rene Submissions — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:24:00 +0000

Paimio Sanatorium, an early major work by Alvar Aalto, is the subject of an exhibition on show in the Gallery at the Alvar Aalto Museum from 12 February to 10 April 2016. The exhibition is based on a conservation management plan prepared for the first time in Finland. The plan involves the most detailed investigation so far of the hospital, which was built for tuberculosis patients.

Exhibition: The Finnish Rowhouse – From Working-Class Housing to Middle-Class Dream

Rene Submissions — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:30:00 +0000

'The Finnish rowhouse – from working-class housing to middle-class dream' exhibition is showing gems of this lifestyle familiar to all Finns, with the hand of Alvar Aalto and his architect contemporaries powerfully in evidence.

Based on extensive research by Professor Riitta Nikula, the exhibition tells the intriguing story of the rowhouse, uncovering the eventful history of rowhouse living from the 1900s to the 1960s. The exhibition uses drawings, photographs and films to present this high-quality everyday architecture.

Alvar Aalto Foundation Launches Competition to Form Museum Center in Jyväskylä

Karissa Rosenfield — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:11:00 +0000

The Alvar Aalto Foundation and the City of Jyväskylä has launched an open international competition in search of an architect to design an extension that would connect the Alvar Aalto Museum with the Museum of Central Finland, and the surrounding outdoor area. The aim is to connect these two key Aalto works to form an attractive, high-quality museum center.

DO! 13th International Alvar Aalto Symposium

Rene Submissions — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 02:30:11 +0000

The Alvar Aalto Symposium gathers together top names in contemporary architecture. This year’s international figures include American architect Greg Lynn, one of the Symposium’s keynote speakers. In line with the theme of the event – DO! – speakers will be rolling up their sleeves and personally opening up about what architects and urban planners really do. The symposium will be held on 7–9 August 2015 in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Harjunkulma Housing Block / Kirsti Sivén & Asko Takala Arkkitehdit

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 09 May 2015 10:00:44 +0000

The town plan for the Harjunkulma housing block was originally based on a design by Peter Zumthor. The idea was to create a monolithic glass block enclosing a vast courtyard. Our office was invited to design the block in 2004, when the town plan had not yet been ratified. The feasibility testing and detailed outlining of the plan were carried out concurrently with the schematic design of the buildings. The first building of the block was not completed until 2007, and altogether it took about ten years from our first sketches to get the whole block completed.

Atelier Heikkilä / Architects Rudanko + Kankkunen

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Atelier Heikkilä is a wooden residence and atelier for a designer couple in Central Finland. The beautiful site overlooks lake Päijänne: it slopes down from the road towards the lake, and the lower parts of the site are filled with a garden.

AD Classics: Jyvaskyla University / Alvar Aalto

Megan Sveiven — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

After entering a general planning competition at the end of May 1951 for the Jyvaskyla Institute of Pedagogics, Alvar Aalto was immediately commissioned to begin working on the plans of each of the individual buildings that were to be added amidst existing complex. He was awarded first prize with his entry 'Urbs', which is reminiscent of some of his previous projects. The U pattern formed by the buildings frames the open center space, where a sports field is accessible by foot.