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Building with care in the Finnish capital. Architect, October 2008 Everyone knows that Finns like saunas and heavy metal. But brochures? “Finns really like brochures,” a local warned me, and sure enough, wherever I went in Finland’s capital, Helsinki, this August, I was steered toward a display rack stuffed with them. Not taking at least […]

With healthcare construction booming, architecture firms are hiring from an unexpected talent pool—registered nurses. Architect, December 2007 Marion Fraser and Alison Wesley-James are in remarkably good spirits, considering what they have to accomplish over the next several hours: squeezing 27 surgical beds, six operating rooms, labs, CT scanners, and support areas into 30,000 or so […]

Can the remnants of Bethlehem Steel be reborn? Preservation, May/June 2005 “It’s like a cathedral,” I exclaimed as the SUV swung through a weedy doorway and onto an expanse of cracked concrete. My guide smiled. “You’re not the first person to say that.” On either side of us, beneath a soaring roof, stretched long rows […]