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Human values
The Annex isn’t just a calm, warm environment where politicians work – it’s also Finnish to the core.
Hope floats
On the waters of the North Sea is Floating Office Rotterdam, an carbon-neutral structure that embodies the need to build better.
Team building
With its open, egalitarian design and a layout that promotes easy political discussion, Seattle City Hall is a building that can actively shape public policy.
Affairs
Andrew Mueller surveys the military hardware that will reshape modern warfare in the years to come.
Design tours: The world’s best public housing?
The world is urbanising fast. But how do you accommodate people in cities in a way that offers dignity, affordability and a sense of community? Vienna may have a solution.
Soft Power Survey 2022
With the international order shaken by the war in Ukraine, we celebrate the gentler art of global persuasion.
Slow and steady
As outerwear brand 66°North steps onto the global stage, we find out what can it teach the world about Nordic-style sustainability and prioritising quality over novelty.
The peacemaker
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has become the face of diplomacy against a country seemingly hell-bent on ignoring common sense.
Chimes of freedom
The Ukraine war has stoked fears of invasion in Taiwan. But it’s at the ballot box where its future relations with China could be defined.
How Eslöv Civic Hall was designed to foster civic pride
Sweden’s Eslöv Civic Hall is a monument to ambition. As the mid-century building is restored, we find out how it is making elite architecture a part of everyday life.
