Architecture studio OOPEAA plans to introduce waterborne swimming pools to coastal and riverside cities around the world, with the first set to be built in Oulu, Finland. More about OOPEAA's floating sea pools offer new swimming facilities to waterside cities
Finnish architecture office OOPEAA has completed a log cabin-style sauna on an island in Helsinki's archipelago that is topped with a zinc roof incorporating dormer windows. More about OOPEAA builds wood and zinc sauna on the shore of a tiny Finnish island
Shimmering, multi-tonal copper clads the entire exterior of this chapel in Finland, designed by architecture firm OOPEAA. More about Copper covers walls and roof of Finnish chapel by OOPEAA
This lakeside observation pavilion by Finnish studio OOPEAA doubles as a giant periscope, so visitors don't have to climb to the top to enjoy the view (+ slideshow). More about OOPEAA builds wooden Periscope Tower beside lake in Finland
OOPEAA has won the 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture with Puukuokka – the tallest wooden apartment block in Finland and one of the first high-rise examples of prefabricated cross-laminated timber construction in the world. More about Finland's tallest wooden apartment block wins Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2015
Prefabricated modules of cross-laminated timber were "plugged in like Lego pieces" to build this eight-storey apartment block in Finland – one of the first examples of its type in the world (+ slideshow). More about OOPEAA completes Finland's first high-rise wooden apartment building
Buildings that make up this house in Finland by architects OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture are arranged to protect a courtyard from the cold northerly winds blowing down the valley (+ slideshow). More about House Riihi by OOPEAA shelters a courtyard from wintery gusts
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: architect Anssi Lassila has installed two huts outside the Finnish Pavilion at the Venice biennale – the first was built from spruce by a Finnish carpenter while the second was put together from bamboo by a team in China. More about Wooden huts demonstrate regional building techniques at the Finnish Pavilion
Finnish architects Anssi Lassila and Teemu Hirvilammi of Lassila Hirvilammi with Jani Jansson of Luonti have completed this slate-clad church with a separate steeple in Jyväskylä, Finland. More about Kuokkala Church by Lassila Hirvilammi and Luonti