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Post updated 21 January 2026

Finnish Architecture Design – chronological list

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Finnish Architecture News in 2026, chronological:

21 January 2026
Katajanokan Laituri, Helsinki
Design: Anttinen Oiva Architects

Finnish Architecture News 2025

Finnish Building News in 2025, chronological:

16 December 2025
The Light of the North Musical Art Center, Säynätsalo, Jyväskylä
Design: Chuxin Tuoyuan, Architects

image : Meng Zhao

12 September 2025
Finlands new Museum of Architecture and Design
Design contest winner: JKMM Architects

image courtesy of architects practice

17 June 2025
New Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki

image courtesy of architects practice

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Finnish Architectural Design News

Finnish Architecture News in 2024, chronological:

17 June 2024
Museum of History and the Future, Turku, southwest Finland
Design: Sigge Architects

image courtesy of architects practice
Selected from over 400 entries, leading Finnish architecture practice Sigge Architects has designed the winning scheme for the world’s first Museum of History and the Future in Turku, Finland. This architecture competition for the new museum, which is set to be completed in 2029 and is located in the city’s harbour, attracted over 400 entries from across the globe.

16 May 2024
Villa Housu, Lapland, northern Finland
Design: Fyra Design Agency

photo : Riikka Kantinkoski
Villa Housu in Finnish Lapland is tailored for an active outdoor life without compromises on design integrity. Lapland, the northernmost region of Finland, enchants with its unique year-round light phenomena, remarkable Arctic scenery and endless outdoor sport opportunities.

Museum Architectural Competition, Turku, southwest Finland
Museum Architectural Competition Turku

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Finnish Architectural News Archive, chronological:

29 May 2023
Huvila K Finland island retreat
Design: Saukkonen + Partners

photo © Timo Pyykönen
The ideal leisure destination is located on a remote island, surrounded by water. The Huvila K retreat, which serves as an escape for the residents, is a linear entity that adapts to the changing landscape in the bosom of nature.

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15 Nov 2022
Art Sauna, Gösta Serlachius Museum of Contemporary Art
Design: Mendoza Partida + BAX Studio

photo © Marc Goodwin
Art Sauna is a continuation of the emotional journey that the Gösta Serlachius Museum offers visitors. The new construction, subtle, intimate and domestic in scale, joins the site and blends in with the scenario of dialogue between art, nature and architecture that it proposes.

28 Oct 2022
Finnish Design Shop, Turku – Nordic design store
Design: avanto architects ltd

photo : kuvio.com / Anders Portman
Finnish Design Shop is the world’s largest online store of Nordic design. The company’s fast growth accelerated during the pandemic, as physical stores needed to close their doors. The new building, headquarters of the company, comprises a logistics center delivering products to over one hundred countries, a showroom, and a restaurant.

30 Aug 2022
New Nordic School by the Sea, Helsinki, Jätkäsaari, Helsinki
Design: Avanto Architects Ltd

photograph : Riikka Kantinkoski

15 Apr 2022
Arctic TreeHouse Hotel Restaurant Rovaniemi
Design: Studio Puisto Architects

photo : Marc Goodwin
The building stands on a steep hillside and appears to merge with the surrounding nature. It turns its back on the slope and stretches out into the landscape with its fingers. The vegetation between the fingers grows close to the building, forcing it to engage in a dialogue with the surrounding Arctic environment.

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17 Dec 2021
Nokia Arena Tampere Building
Architects: Studio Libeskind

photo : Hufton + Crow
Studio Libeskind, along with SRV Rakennus Oy, and local partner ARCO Architecture Company / Aihio Arkkitehdit, open the LEED Gold Nokia Arena in Tampere. The Nokia Arena sits atop of Tampere’s railway tracks in the heart of the city. Daniel Libeskind

29 Sep 2021
Brädgården Art Works, Noormarkku, Western Finland
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

image courtesy of architecture practice
Brädgården Art ~ Works project is based on a simple and clear idea: embracing the meeting between people and art with an appealing spatial composition. The result is a future-oriented and site-adapted proposal, transparently expressing its content and ambitions.

9 Jun 2021
Sara Hildén Art Museum Tampere Building
Design: hey5 Architects

image courtesy of architects practice
Piippu (“chimney” in Finnish), an art beacon in the center of Tampere simultaneously creates a functional, flexible museum, with an innovative architectural identity that reinforces the memory of the Finlayson area. Hey5’s proposal for the new Sara Hildén Art Museum turns verticality into an asset, creating a strong urban presence, respecting the site’s urban structure and architecture, and pushing the visitor experience to new limits.

Sweco acquires Finnish architecture company Linja Arkkitehdit

Sweco has signed an agreement to acquire Linja Arkkitehdit Oy, specialised in design of educational and business premises as well as residential buildings. With the acquisition Sweco becomes one of the largest architecture companies in Finland.

Linja Arkkitehdit Oy has approximately 60 architects located in Oulu, Helsinki and Jyväskylä. The company offers architectural services in the design of educational establishments, residential premises and business premises. The revenue of Linja Arkkitehdit during 2020 was EUR 5.3 million.

“This acquisition is fully in line with our history and strategy to be able to provide integrated architecture and technical consultancy services to our clients. I am pleased that we are strengthening our architectural offering in Finland,” says Åsa Bergman, President and CEO of Sweco.

“Sweco and Linja Arkkitehdit have already successfully cooperated in several projects over the years, and now we are able to deepen the cooperation even further. The acquisition strengthens our client relationships through our ability to offer them a broader set of services and expertise together,” says Markku Varis, President of Sweco Finland.

“I am very pleased that Linja Arkkitehdit has found a home to grow together with Sweco. Sweco’s expertise and position is highly recognised in the industry, and Sweco is already a familiar and reliable partner for us. We have had a successful cooperation in many projects and our services complement each other,” says Ville Niskasaari, CEO of Linja Arkkitehdit Oy.

Through the acquisition, Sweco will have 120 architects in the Finnish market, including those joining Sweco through the acquisition of Optiplan in January 2021. In total, Sweco Group has around 1,400 architects and landscape architects and is one of the world’s five largest architecture firms.

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17 Jul 2020
National Museum of Finland Extension, Helsinki

3 Jun 2020
New Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki

Updated 27 May 2020 + 10 Jul 2015
Shiver House in Korppoo
Design: NEON

image courtesy of architects practice
Shiver House was previously installed in 2015 as part of the Barfotastigen exhibition in Korppoo, Finland. The project was intended to be in-situ for 4 months but due to its popularity it was kept on-site on a longer-term basis.

28 Feb 2020
Syvälahti Education Centre Turku
Design: Verstas Architects

photograph : kuvio.com
A new multipurpose building combining a comprehensive school, a day-care centre, a public library, a youth centre and a childcare guidance centre.

18 Jan 2020
The Aalto University Väre Building in Espoo

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Finnish Architecture News 2019

5 Jul 2019
Tampere Psychiatric Clinic Building

13 Jun 2019
National Museum of Finland New Annex Building

28 Mar 2019
Kyrö Distillery Barrel Storage, Kalpatie, Isokyrö
Architects: Avanto Architects Ltd

photograph : kuvio.com
The client is a Finnish craft producer of spirits that started from scratch but is rapidly expanding after winning several international prizes including the best gin & tonic in 2015.

More contemporary Finnish Architecture News online soon on e-architect.

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Finnish Architecture News 2008 – 2018

24 Aug 2018
New Architecture and Design Museum Complex in Helsinki Proposal
A report recommends that a new world-class museum of architecture and design be established in Helsinki.
According to the report, Finland needs a new, top-class museum of architecture and design. Finnish architecture and design attract interest at both the national and the international level.
New Architecture and Design Museum Complex in Helsinki

29 Jun 2018
Off-site wood construction is the future of building
Urbanisation is accelerating and creating pressure to increase housing construction. To answer this global challenge, construction needs to be quicker and more ecological – article by Metsä Wood, Espoo, Finland.

29 Apr 2018
Villa Kaislaranta in Sysmä, Päijänne Tavastia region, Southern Finland
Architect: RESORTUM and OSUMA Architects Ltd

photograph : RESORTUM

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15 Nov 2017
Pyramid House in Sysmä
Architect: VOID Architecture

photograph : Timo Laaksonen

7 Nov 2017
Alvar Aalto Time Lapse in Jyvaskyla
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects

image Courtesy architecture office
Design entry for an international architecture competition to link the Alvar Aalto Museum with the Museum of Central Finland: Alvar Aalto’s architectural legacy.

29 Oct 2017
Sámi Cultural Centre Building
Design: Halo Arkkitehdit with M3 Architects

photograph : Mika Huisman

11 Aug 2017
The Museum of Finnish Architecture Eero Saarinen Honorary Lecture 2017 by Architect Sebastián Irarrázaval

photo © Sebastian Irarrazaval Arquitectos
Museum Finnish Architecture Exhibition
This annual lecture organized by the Museum of Finnish Architecture pays tribute to the legacy of the Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen.

11 Jan 2017
Periscope Tower in Seinäjoki
Design: OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture

photo © Anssi Lassila
The Periscope Tower is a giant wooden periscope structure that forms an observation point within the Finnish landscape.

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23 Nov 2016
Alvar Aalto Museum Building, Jyväskylä
Design: Melbourne Design Studios

image Courtesy architecture office
This unbuilt project creates a ‘connector’ between the existing Alvar Aalto Museo and the Central Museum of Finland in Ruusupuisto, inspired by Alvar Aalto’s architecture, paintings and design philosophy.

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7 Nov 2013
Seinäjoki Library Building>
Design: JKMM Architects

photograph © Mika Huisman
The key point of reference for the new library design was its location in the valuable civic centre built environment created by Aalto – a masterpiece of modern architecture. The architectural design initiates a dialogue between the new and old parts.

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Finnish Building Developments

photograph : Timo Vesterinen
Finnish Building Developments
A selection of key examples of Finnish buildings, focused on contemporary architecture.