A sculptural white staircase lit by a skylight connects an open-plan living space to a mezzanine floor inside this house in Finland by Avanto Architects (+ slideshow). Avanto designed the villa in the ...

Heta-Jemina Pudas is the owner of the only public bathhouse in Lapland where people ice-plunge straight in the Baltic Sea, not in a lake or a pool. Ms Pudas reveals all the secrets for a pleasant, ...

On the occasion of the centenary of Finland's Independence (Suomi 100), Rome’s Casa dell’Architettura is to host the “Architecture in Finland. From Alvar Aalto to new generations. Talk with Avanto ...

A copper-clad chapel and a faceted wooden sauna are among the four buildings competing for Finland's most important architecture prize (+ slideshow). The Finnish Association of Architects has ...

In the Finnish tradition of sauna, a plunge into cold water follows the steamy experience of the sauna chamber. In winter, an avanto, a hole cut through the ice of a lake or pond close by the sauna, ...

From sauna to avanto, through plant sap and wild berries... you're going to want to try all these rituals that Finns are known for. Photo: AFP Between the country's young prime minister who isn't ...