Finland's new government has promised to reduce the country's fossil-fuel consumption and invest in renewable energy sources, after 80 per cent of Finns called for urgent action on climate change. More about Finland announces plans to become carbon neutral by 2035
The Helsinki Central Library Oodi, designed by ALA Architects, is topped with large open-plan reading room under an undulating roof punctured by circular skylights. More about Helsinki Central Library Oodi topped with translucent "book heaven"
Studio Joanna Laajisto has used red and cream floor tiles, ash wood carpentry and marble table tops to create a relaxed interior for an organic bakery, coffee shop and wine bar in Helsinki. More about Studio Joanna Laajisto designs The Way bar in Helsinki to reflect its organic menu
Studio Joanna Laajisto has created an office for a Finnish advertising agency inside a bread factory with six-metre-high ceilings, in Helsinki. More about Studio Joanna Laajisto transforms Helsinki bread factory into Bob the Robot's office
Japanese brand Muji has revealed designs for an autonomous shuttle bus built for all weather conditions, set to hit the roads in three Finnish cities by 2020. More about Muji designs "friendly" autonomous shuttle bus for Finland
Triangle-shaped towers fitted with smart technology form the centre of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects competition-winning masterplan for Helsinki. More about Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects plans cluster of triangular smart skyscrapers for Helsinki
SevilPeach has designed the headquarters for Finnish furniture brand Artek, with vivid theatre-style curtains and pale surfaces serving as a backdrop for its collection of minimalist tables and chairs. More about Coloured curtains stand out against white walls in Artek's Helsinki headquarters
Studio Puisto has designed a sauna complex in Tampere, Finland, to serve as a "communal living room" for the surrounding district. More about Studio Puisto creates "neighbourhood sauna" in former industrial building
Helsinki's new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn't the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. More about "With Amos Rex, Helsinki shows you don't need to import a brand to get cultural prestige"
Finnish designer Laura Seppänen applied earthy tones throughout this restaurant in Helsinki to reflect the menu's focus on locally sourced ingredients. More about Farm-to-table cooking informs natural colour palette of Maannos restaurant in Helsinki
This wooden chicken coop, installed in the grounds of summer house in rural Finland, is styled like a miniature log cabin perched above the ground on granite rocks. More about Chan Brisco Architects builds wooden chicken coop that looks like a log cabin in rural Finland
Japanese art collective TeamLab has created a site-specific digital installation of water moving towards a vortex, on the inside of a domed roof in the new Amos Rex museum in Helsinki. More about TeamLab creates virtual vortex as inaugural installation for Helsinki's Amos Rex gallery
JKMM Architects designed a series of domed subterranean galleries for the soon-to-open Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, which bubble up through the ground to create a playful outdoor landscape. More about Amos Rex's bulging underground galleries create playful landscape in Helsinki plaza
Finnish designer Robin Falck has created an A-frame mirrored holiday home on Vallisaari, an island near Helsinki. More about The Nolla cabin by Robin Falck is a zero-emissions escape in Finland
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
Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has renovated a 1950s restaurant in Helsinki, combining soft pink tones with a teak-lined scheme that honours the building's modernist design. More about Note Design Studio redesigns historic mid-century restaurant in Helsinki
This house near Helsinki perches on a rocky bluff looking out towards the Baltic Sea and features a cranked form that shelters a decked terrace from the harsh wind. More about Villa K's angular concrete volumes provide views of a Finnish forest and the Baltic Sea
Alt Arkkitehdit has completed a bright red storage shed for oil-spill equipment in northern Finland, featuring a full-width clerestory window that projects from the facade to protect it from damage by forklift trucks. More about Oil-spill recovery unit in Finland is illuminated by angled clerestory window
This angular house in a forest near Helsinki is host to a number a child-friendly features including a climbing wall, gymnastic apparatus and a net covering a cut-out in one of the floors. More about Ortraum Architects builds forest home in Finland with a trapeze, a climbing wall and a hammock
Finnish architecture firm Casagrande Laboratory designed this self-sufficient prefab house to fit on the footprint of a single car-parking space. More about Casagrande Laboratory designs wooden micro house for city dwellers