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Helsinki's Allas Sea Pool offers a view of a Ferris wheel and an office building designed by Alvar Aalto. Geraldine Friedrich/dpa Helsinki's urban area contains more than 300 islands, with the total ...

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Discover how Helsinki’s underground playgrounds, pools and sports halls double as civil defence shelters built to protect an ...

Curators have received 623 competition entries for the New Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki, one of the most sought after architecture commissions in the world today. Between three and ...

One glance at Architecture in Helsinki’s exhaustive toy box—saws, hammers, strings, horns, sitar, piano, synths of varying circumstance—is overwhelming enough to leave even the most courageous ...

Restrained isn't a word typically applicable to Architecture in Helsinki. The group has taken quite the opposite approach for most of its career, turning out colorful, sprightly indie pop that's more ...

The annual Bumbershoot Festival returns in 2014 to Seattle’s Seattle Center from August 30 to September 1. The lineup was just announced and includes The Replacements, Wu-Tang Clan, Elvis Costello, ...

Finland has spent decades digging caves into its bedrock. Now, as Russia rears its head, nervous Finns want to know: “Where’s ...