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 ...

The Alvar Aalto Foundation hosts the 16th Alvar Aalto Symposium at the University of Jyväskylä. The symposium explores how architecture can affect and improve global crises, such as global warming, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

He built wild, magical buildings and furniture that is still thrilling today. But a new film suggests the celebrated Finn was also a domineering philanderer deeply indebted to his talented wives Wonky ...

When the sun finally rises and the snow melts away after a long, cold winter, the Finns are more than ready to embrace the summer. A common tradition is to spend the season in a lakeside cottage—there ...

Here’s a pressing question on many of our minds right now: How do residents of routinely frigid parts of the world find respite in the dead of winter? A clue can be seen in Jyväskylä, Finland, the ...

HELSINKI, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese architect Zhang Ke was awarded 2017 Alvar Aalto Medal, one of the most internationally recognized architecture prizes, Finland's Alvar Aalto Foundation announced ...

The Architecture Film Festival London, now at its third edition, fosters conversations around architecture, society and the built environment through the medium of film. Along with the International ...

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 ...