The country celebrated its 101st year of independence on December 6 by dedicating “Oodi (Ode),” the long-awaited new Helsinki Central Library, designed by ALA Architects.
San Francisco officials and the city’s team scrutinizing permit applications for shoring the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower—which has settled 17 in. and tilted 4 in. over more than a decade—say the review will last several months.
The new interactive exhibit by British artist Esmeralda “Es” Devlin is housed in a concrete disk-shaped volume outside of the Thomas Heatherwick–designed museum in Cape Town.
HouseZero, a revamped former single-family residence, will serve as office space and a living lab, enabling the next generation of sustainability research.