Tag: publications

Koivikko sauna is highlighted in the New York Times Magazine in a feature on Finnish saunas by Michael Snyder with photos by Luana Rigolli. The story was published in the online edition of the magazine on March 4, 2025. A […]

Nordic Waterscapes is the focus of the February 2025 issue of a+u magazine. Two OOPEAA projects, Lonna Sauna and Periscope Tower, are included in the selection that highlights architectural strategies for maintaining and enhancing our relationship to the natural environment. […]

Puukuokka Housing Block is featured as one of the two study cases in a new publication on decarbonized construction by John Wiley & Sons. The book, Carbon: A Field Manual for Designers and Builders is authored by Kuittinen, Organschi and Ruff. […]

The November issue of THE PLAN Magazine 134 features the Tikkurila Church and Housing. ” Strikingly varied and articulated, the OOPEAA architectural program has a fundamental consistency. Not only a truly interesting addition to the urban scene, it also serves […]

The renovated and restored Villa Koivikko, a landmarked residence designed by Aarne Ervi in 1958, is featured as the House of the Month in the September 2021 issue of the Architectural Record.  In the project to renovate the villa, ”Our starting point was to celebrate […]

The Puuhi Community Space by OOPEAA is featured in the ARK Magazine issue 1 / 2020. Puuhi is a space for meetings and shared activity for the people of Soini. It is a place for gatherings and events initiated by the […]

The newly published book Vision and Toolbox for the Future Seinäjoki City Center provides a framework for developing the city as a socially sustainable, active and green urban place with a human scale. It is the result of a two-year […]

The Vision and Toolbox for the Future Seinäjoki City Center will be presented in the book launch event at the Apila Library in Seinäjoki on November 2019. The Vision and Toolbox for the Future Seinäjoki City Center provides a framework […]

The CNN Style section highlights twelve buildings that transformed cities around the world in its review of Phaidon’s newly published book Destination Architecture. The new book by Phaidon presents a selection of one thousand of the most compelling designs from […]

The Suvela Chapel by OOPEAA is featured in the January issue of Architectural Record in an article written by Peter MacKeith, Dean and Professor of Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.  Describing the […]

Sherin Wing’s new book Designing Sacred Spaces is now released on Amazon, find the book in HERE.  OOPEAA is featured as one of seven architecture offices whose designs for sacred spaces are presented in the book. The Kärsämäki Shingle Church, […]

The first building in the Puukuokka Housing Block was just recently completed. Puukuokka is the first eight-story high wooden apartment building in Finland. Developed in collaboration with Lakea, it is an energy-efficient trio of multi-story wood-framed flats in the Jyväskylä […]

Kärsämäki Church was completed ten years ago with handicraft methods and traditional materials creating a contemporary and at the same time timeless building.

Dezeen, the internationally renown platform for design and architecture, has just  published House Riihi. You can read the full story here.  

We are pleased to share our Phaidon Atlas profile! Please, read more here.

House L was featured in Interior Design Magazine, one of the most accomplished and reknown interior design magazines internationally. You can read the full article here.

Today we are featured in Europaconcorsi, one of the most popular and influential architecture web magazines internationally. We are in the main slideshow as you can see here.

House Riihi was featured on Designboom! You can read the full article here.

OOPEAA monograph will be released by Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, documenting the work of Lassila Hirvilammi Architects and its evolution into OOPEAA.