Helsinki has high hopes for the summer. It is now announced that the city's art biennial will take place on Vallisaari Island 12 June-26 September. 40 artists have been invited to create site-specific, temporary works on the island, in dialogue with the landscape. The focus is of course on sustainability. The biennial has free admission and is presented by the Helsinki Art Museum, curators are Pirkko Siitari and Taru Tappola from HAM.
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Today Architects Sweden unveiled the four nominees for this year’s Kasper Salin Prize for the best building of the year 2020. The prize will be awarded on March 25 at the Arkitekturgalan in Stockholm.
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During Stockholm Design Week 2021 a new new Swedish furniture company was launched. Verk´s products are produced in Sweden and made exclusively from Swedish raw materials – from needle felt to surface finish – without compromising on comfort or design.
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In this year's first issue of Form, we look both forward and backwards. PhotographerTrine Søndergaard’s portraits are based on traditional Danish costumes and fabrics, while also addressing the current debate on cultural identity and the female experience. Architecture theorist Beatriz Colomina explains how architecture always has been intimately associated with medical history, while Vitra's CEO Nora Fehlbaum speculates on what design will look like after the pandemic. And together with Stockholm Furniture Fair and ten of our most important furniture manufacturers, Form invites you to an alternative Furniture fair, where companies present their most important news in the magazine.
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