MNY Arkitekter completes "down-to-earth" house for two sisters in Finland
Finnish studio MNY Arkitekter has completed Two Sisters, a timber holiday home in Salo that is designed to allow two siblings to live "together separately". More
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Ortraum Architects builds timber music studio beside house in Helsinki
Ortraum Architects has built an asymmetric studio called 12 in the garden of a house in Helsinki, Finland, to provide its owners with space to compose music and make ceramics. More
Black timber and zinc house with sauna sits next to a Finnish lake
A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. More
Self-sustaining cabins on tiny Finnish island are heated by a sauna stove
Finnish designers Aleksi Hautamaki and Milla Selkimaki have built a self-sufficient summer house on the five-acre island they own on the edge of Finland's Archipelago National Park. More
Villa K's angular concrete volumes provide views of a Finnish forest and the Baltic Sea
This house near Helsinki perches on a rocky bluff looking out towards the Baltic Sea and features a cranked form that shelters a decked terrace from the harsh wind. More
Ortraum Architects builds forest home in Finland with a trapeze, a climbing wall and a hammock
This angular house in a forest near Helsinki is host to a number a child-friendly features including a climbing wall, gymnastic apparatus and a net covering a cut-out in one of the floors. More
Mer Arkkitehdit sets spruce-panelled villa into cliff face in Finnish seaside town
Architecture studio Mer Arkkitehdit has integrated the surrounding rocky terrain into its design for this spruce-clad villa in the historic Finnish seaside town of Hanko. More
Timber-clad Gamla Villan by Mer Architects offers views of Finnish meadow and sea
A grand window offers views of the woodland and sea in this house in Hanko, Finland, designed by Mer Architects as a contemporary update of the town's historic villas. More
MNy Arkitekter uses seven types of timber for Finnish lake house
MNy Arkitekter has used seven varieties of timber to create this gabled house on the shoreline of a small lake in Tenala, Finland (+ slideshow). More
House H by Teemu Hirvilammi features a black exterior and pale wood interior
Architect Teemu Hirvilammi has completed a wooden house for his own family in the Finnish city of Seinäjoki, featuring dark external walls and a contrasting interior of pale spruce wood (+ slideshow). More
Lake cabin by Sini Kamppari features slatted timber walls and a projecting terrace
This small wooden cabin by London-based architect Sini Kamppari perches among trees on a granite ridge, offering views of a lake in southeast Finland (+ slideshow). More
Villa Lumi by Avanto Architects has a curving white concrete staircase
A sculptural white staircase lit by a skylight connects an open-plan living space to a mezzanine floor inside this house in Finland by Avanto Architects (+ slideshow). More
Forest home by Sanaksenaho Architects features black walls and a bean-shaped roof
Black-painted slats in different widths and thicknesses create uneven ridges on the walls of this lakeside house in a Finnish pine forest (+ slideshow). More
House Riihi by OOPEAA shelters a courtyard from wintery gusts
Buildings that make up this house in Finland by architects OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture are arranged to protect a courtyard from the cold northerly winds blowing down the valley (+ slideshow). More
Villa Kettukallio by Playa Architects provides a woodland holiday home
A clay-based black paint forms a protective layer across the facade of this woodland cabin in Finland, designed by Playa Architects as the second home for a Finnish family living abroad (+ slideshow). More
Timber-clad House M-M by Tuomas Siitonen wraps around a sheltered garden
This wooden home in Helsinki by Finnish architect Tuomas Siitonen has a roof that dips in the middle to allow views across it and a kinked plan that wraps around a secluded garden (+ slideshow). More
Artist Retreat by 0 to 1
Guest artists will be invited to live and work inside this shard-like timber hut. More
Four-Cornered Villa by Avanto Architects
Helsinki studio Avanto Architects have completed this house with four wings overlooking four distinct views in Virrat, Finland. More