Most Courageous Embassy Ever Built - A Testament To Transparency - Embassy of Finland in Canberra

[@molexi6537]

Finland and Estonia sharing the embassy is very cool. Estonia is often considered the "little brother nation" to Finland, and they have a special relationship as they are the only 2 Finnic speaking nations left in the world.

[@Archimarathon]

BFFs

[@topiheimola69]

Independent nations yes. But they are the most spoken Finnic languages although Hungarian is a cousin language aswell

[@molexi6537]

@@topiheimola69 Yea, but I felt like simplifying it was better for the comment. Mentioning karelians, ingrians, vepsians etc. while also going into the differences between these languages and hungarian would just complicate things too much.

[@xKuukkelix]

@@topiheimola69 technically yes but finnish and hungarian split over 4500 years ago. For reference most indo-european languages split 5000 years ago so chronologically finnish and hungarian are almost as far apart as english and punjabi

[@Aquelll]

*Little sister. As Estonia is personified as female like Finland is. 😏

[@ymyone]

As a 1st generation Australian from Finnish roots this presentation was quite warming and heart felt. Damm I really miss Finland.

[@Archimarathon]

Kiitos paljon

[@ymyone]

@@Archimarathon I am waiting to get back for my 11 visit.😀

[@juhah6544]

Hyvää Joulua ja onnellista Uutta Vuotta !

[@Archimarathon]

Kiitos

[@jt_norway9129]

*Maaaame noises intensifies* ❤️😊 Greetings from you Norwegian brothers 💋🇧🇻🇫🇮

[@-Anjel]

Ilmarinen is a character from Finnish mythology. Seppo Ilmarinen was a smith (seppä=smith and the name Seppo comes from the word) who in the beginning created "taivaan kansi"= the lid of the sky, and he was such a good smith that you could not see any plier or hammer marks. He could work with any material and create anything, he created the Sampo which is a mill that can create riches out of nothing. In some poems Ilmarinen is a god and in some not, he most likely was a god in the poems that were made during the Bronze Age and during the Iron Age he became a smith. Ilma=air

[@Archimarathon]

Yes from Kalevala

[@davidjgill4902]

The Embassy of Finland in Washinton, 1994, by Heikkinen Komonen Architects is very similar. It certainly shows a consistency of intention on the part of Finland's embassy building program.

[@Archimarathon]

Yes. Very much so the Finnish architecture in the 90’s.

[@TheMikkis100]

This is a pretty unknown project even in Finland. It's a great showcase of Finnish architecture in the 90s-00s stylistically and in the way how transparent spaces and different materials are treated. Also, currently Finland's president is a man.

[@Archimarathon]

Yes Andrew meant the PM Sanna Marin

[@TheMikkis100]

@@Archimarathon Yea, sorry for nitpicking. Very nice video tho.

[@Archimarathon]

Well the Embassy or the Foreign Ministry of Finland didn’t mention or correct jt

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

@@Archimarathon The president used to be stronger, but today they are more equal

[@tormendor8585]

@@Archimarathon sanna marin is just terrible tho, illegally using government money for her personal expenses, she talks about how shes going to fix equality and climate, yet all she does is just ruin the economy. Sounds like a rant but i really dont know anything good about her.

[@95GuitarMan13]

What a great building. I hope you continue to get access to others of similar caliber for in-depth tours like this.

[@Archimarathon]

That's the plan!

[@davidchannon6004]

@@Archimarathon Architects love a good plan.

[@jumpninja001]

Interestingly, the sauna out the back, in it's own little building, carries a lot of those design ideas too with the big glass sections throughout. You can see right through the shower area (with frosted glass from about shoulder to knee height), into the sauna and out the window from the other end of the building, and the bathroom occupies a small cabin like space in the centre of the structure. They used to hold regular open days in the days before Covid which gave a good chance to see everything you guys mentioned.

[@Archimarathon]

We where specifically not to talk about our show the sauna spaces. It’s a miracle already we can show this much as it is

[@jumpninja001]

@@Archimarathon That's a shame, especially since it's a big part of Finnish culture. Guess more people will have to come in during the open days then!

[@Archimarathon]

Well at the moment they are contemplating what the embassy means in the future and it’s relation to the public

[@paceosheam]

As always, thanks for taking the time to explain another AMAZING building to us. I love the strong connections all through the building to being in a ship. The internal corridors as well as the external horizontal windows, the distance from the ground or land is clearly symbolic. What a symbol of transparency and openness, one I think is lost on the American Embassy in London! Lucky you, seeing the inside!!

[@wrigleyextra11]

Amazing concept on the warship! This is the first building where I think Kevin and Andrew were continuously surprised by what it was doing. A feat in itself.

[@Archimarathon]

It’s a pretty extraordinary building. I think it was mainly Andrew since he does most of the talking and he’s never been inside

[@anguswagstaff6437]

I walk past this embassy to work and have always loved it (especially compared to the Egyptian embassy up the road). It was so cool to see the inside, at least more up close. Love the Canberra content!

[@mikrokupu]

Thank you guys, a great presentation! The embassy of Finland in Washington DC has a bit similar vibe, just in a bigger scale. The embassy of Finland in Delhi is one of my favourite pieces of the Finnish architecture, a gorgeous building! Not the president 16:24 but the current PM of Finland is female, one of the youngest leaders in the world (36y)

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for the correction. Yes we meant Sanna Marin. Yes the Heikkinen-Komonen stuff is very much that late 90s Finnish architecture vibe as exemplar in this building. Though I think the involvement with Rinaldo Giurgola really made it into something far more than many other buildings I have seen in Finland. The New Delhi Embassy by ALA really takes on a sight Pietilä feel

[@VikingBunnyFIN]

@@Archimarathon with the president I just thought you meant are old president Tarja Halonen😁.

[@Archimarathon]

You mean Conan O’Brien?

[@VikingBunnyFIN]

@@Archimarathon 😂

[@Kenruli]

Well Sanna Marin is quite a meme, I think not that liked woman.

[@JonZellweger]

Reminds me a bit of Heikkinen - Komonen's Finnish Embassy in Washington DC. And it's the first LEED Platinum-certified embassy in the world, I believe. 16 years after it was completed...not because of significant retrofit, but just because it was a good design to start.

[@Litepaw]

You're Finnished. Perrrkele. I can see a lot of familiarity in that interior design, a lot of new/renovated buildings have that very same open/spacey design. Not necessarily that transparent, but the new public library in Helsinki is a great comparison to that ...vibe. Can't really explain it in other words, just feels very homely to me. I think Tom Scott has a video from that library, has to do with book robots or something idk.

[@canberrabybike]

Another terrific video from Canberra. Thanks, gents. I lead a bicycle tour through the diplomatic missions in Yarralumla, and this video came at the perfect time. We’ll pass this building tomorrow, and I’ll encourage our group to watch your channel. My favourite mission so far is the High Commission of Samoa, by Cox Architects and Samoan traditional crafts people, a little further up Darwin Ave from this building.

[@thedarknight1613]

Glass used in a way i never imagined before.. simply mesmerizing.....

[@BillWoodillustrator]

There are some embassies in Canberra that quite frankly pretty embarrassing- it’s great that a small country like Finland, although wealthy can export their ideals architecturally speaking. Other countries take note.

[@Archimarathon]

And also manage to fit in the Australian context but not in a cliche way too. Not to mention that it was way ahead of its time in sustainability and geothermal

[@urbancolab]

This building is beautifully detailed. The layered plan is executed very well. A great building to teach students about vertical and horizontal concept development. Great variety of spaces.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks. We love it and it’s hard to convey why it is great

[@lvchlvn]

A remarkable experiment in openness, in an unexpected typology. The somewhat open offices are really quite beautiful spaces. Great video Archimarathon!

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for watching and commenting

[@nnekafrances8126]

Nice building..Architecture is lovely..

[@gabybordino6024]

Wow! I love this building! I´m so happy you´ve been there making this amazing video. I really enjoy when a building tells a story (in a good way). The resemblance of a meaningful ship is pretty clear and still, the building is subtle in its own design. Layers and transparency are such a celebration of good architecture. And the way how the building sits on the site is great. I feel you can tell what time of the day is, just looking at the shadows that shape the spaces inside. Awesome Another point I´d like to mention, it´s clearly a building to enjoy in section (yes, I´m a section geek lol).

[@rkan2]

This very much vibes with many office buildings in Finland, especially some of the few remarkable ones built in 1990s like the "Nokia House" in Keilalahti, the original Nokia headquarters - nowadays the "Tieto Keilalahti Campus"

[@Archimarathon]

Yes very much so

[@RB-zm4fk]

Interesting to see the inside of these structures and the thought process. Thanks guys

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for watching and commenting

[@JaakkoIsWatching]

Thank you for the nice tour! Although most of our buildings here in Finland don't look like that, there are so many things in it that are so Finnish. It even makes you two somehow speak a bit like Finns.

[@Archimarathon]

Kiitos paljon.

[@JSolhoff]

i agree your point of view. But i also noticed the name of the architecters/designers, - Hirvonen and Huttunen. Both well known names in world rally championship too. (not the same persons though) ;-)

[@JaakkoIsWatching]

@@JSolhoff Very common last names in Finland.

[@brok56]

There is also an embassy for Estonia behind this building? That makes me smile.

[@gerhard497]

Building is shared.

[@brok56]

@@gerhard497 even More wholesome.

[@Archimarathon]

Yes the original residence component has been turned into the Estonian Embassy.

[@EdgarTheEagle]

Great video, sleek embassy, and yes transparency vs solid well distributed. Thanks for sharing! Although my eyes kept on going to those light blue sneakers lol!

[@Archimarathon]

Haha. Yes that’s been for the whole Canberra series

[@KINGSPOINT.NY.2024]

well done gents...and after watching about a dozen of your vids today (and a couple on Glenn Murcutt) I figured that Kevin is the research / cameraman / tour guide ..and Andrew is the design philosophy critic / comedian : tsk! in this partnership....and of course - the rest of the Team...its almost 11 pm in NYC..and i still have 1 more to watch for tonight..."What we saw in 3 days..an Intensive Tour of Sydney"..WOOF!!

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for watching and commenting. Maybe we could grab a beer or two in NYC in July

[@KINGSPOINT.NY.2024]

@@Archimarathon AWESOME...Cheers!!

[@froggy0162]

There’s a window cleaning contractor somewhere in Canberra doing very well from this building :)

[@Archimarathon]

Certainly a lot easier to clean than many other buildings with much trickier windows.

[@mikehtims]

These videos are fantastic!! Keep them uo

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks

[@WelcomeToSteph]

Wow what a generous building! Also, surprised to find that an embassy is actually pretty small... the ship concept is totally awesome! Like you're sailing in a sea of Australian bush.

[@Archimarathon]

Have you been when you were in Canberra?

[@WelcomeToSteph]

@@Archimarathon not to the Finnish embassy, but I did attend an event at the Kiwi High Commission which was also a nice building, except for the absurd fence. This Finnish design reminds me of an entry to another competition thing that they ran for The Lodge - I'll see if I can find the details of the scheme that drew my attention.

[@auvomesilampi6325]

Finland has only 5,6 million people and may not have huge embassies everywhere

[@Archimarathon]

Yes but this one is pretty special

[@simmysims9209]

This was great to see as a finn. I have never seen nothing about this building.

[@Archimarathon]

Surprisingly not known or forgotten in Finland

[@lara.kh9724]

Wow amazing it truly represents Finland I love it I hope to see one like this here in India thank you

[@Archimarathon]

The Finnish Embassy in India is by ALA Architects and it looks like a great building with a bit of Reima + Raiili Pietilä’s flavour.

[@juhacolnago]

@@Archimarathon Actually it´s by Pietilä from 1985 and I suppose that the later renovation is by ALA

[@Archimarathon]

Aha! Thanks for the clarification.

[@jonathonhunt935]

Fabulous reviews of significant architecture in oz! Sooo interesting and uplifting. Many 🙏🙏🙏

[@Archimarathon]

Cheers

[@MsWill813]

Reminds me of our concert house, Sibelius house. A lot of glass and wood. Nature is so important to us.

[@Archimarathon]

The one in Lahti?

[@MsWill813]

@@Archimarathon Yes :) Lovely views to the lake summer, winter, day and night. I hope you can visit some time

[@betula2137]

10:30 You mention Tassie timber -- do you know whether it was actually certified sustainable? We (Tasmania+Australia as the only developed country deforestation hotspot) have an unethical deforestation problem, but most of the rainforests and 100m trees we chop are woodchipped and turned into paper in East Asia. The state forester today, Sustainable Timber Tasmania, is uncertified by the standard FSC certification for sustainability, after being rejected twice for the logging of endangered species' habitat (including the world's only 3 migratory parrots & the fastest parrot, the world's biggest wingspan eagle, the biggest freshwater lobster, the mammal with the biggest bite strength, etc.) and along with its name, it is notorious for greenwashing, brandishing its "sustainable" certifications (which are just base minimum forest product certifications). So the timber could have been Eucalyptus nitens plantation (non-native monoculture which replaces the napalmed rainforest), blackwood (of which there is not much in plantations), Tasmanian oak (which is just the rebranded version of Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest hardwood on Earth), Eucalyptus amygdalina, E. obliqua, E. delegatensis, etc. And the native forestry industry runs at a loss, having cost us $1.3bn over 20yrs, and our GSP is only $32bn. It immediately sells the plantation land to private industry so that it can't profit from more profitable plantations anyway (nevermind the 4th largest temperate rainforests it replaces), and it has to fulfil a massively high pulp quota each year, which the industry itself is even against because the profit margin is non-existent for the work required to get the timber versus its value at that scale of destruction. And 300 local businesses in tourism and apiculture have begged for the end of native forest logging like Victoria and WA have announced. It's clear some form of corruption is involved in resources industries, without anti-corruption watchdogs with teeth. Meanwhile, Finland seems miles ahead of us on many metrics, not just forest preservation in the modern day.

[@barockychocky]

Always an occasion! When I get a new video notification it's time to make a cuppa and enjoy... Thanks, guys!

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for being a fan

[@avidtom52]

Thank you and beautifully explained. The role of Giurgola is quite apparent to me, apart from the firm being in a role as collaborator with the Finnish competition designer through their local presence in Canberra. When you see the Hirvonen-Huttunen competition drawing and look at the landscape concept, it was not really represented as Australian in character. Then to see the interior images of the way the building responded to the landscape views is all about the recognition and respect for this landscape of this country that is so foreign to others. Parliament House is a masterpiece of landscape design, through Giurola's deep appreciation for the Australian landscape. The parliament cleverly transitions from highly formal courtyards on the inner courtyards, to natural bushland on the perimeter, and sits as a forested hill in the landscape, all arising from Giurgola's seminal concepts and respect for the Griffin plan's landscape principles. So I think that this building also achieved this magical quality, enriched by Giurgola's experience in making these connections. Purely speculative though.

[@Archimarathon]

I think so too though the Finns do have deep connection with landscape too. I think the skill in the executing of design and refinement here owing to MGT can definitely be felt especially if you google for other Hirvonen-Huttunen works.

[@curiousarchitect]

Very interesting video. For an embassy, its located at a very unique location...

[@Archimarathon]

Yes, it is a beautiful and unique setting

[@pona61]

No kuka ei Ausseja rakastais 🧑‍🎄🇫🇮🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄💖

[@harishravishankar]

Nice building and great architecture. :)

[@AntoniWiechec]

This looks so modern!

[@nnnnoe]

“A rigorous execution of the rules. Applying the rules and following them through” This is SO important when we design. Sounds simple but it’s sometimes easy to forget. If we set some rules for the project regarding material utilization (where and why) and spatial relationships, and then actually follow them, we end up with this logic that supports every design choice we make.

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Nynke_K]

Cool building! And I love that they share it with their neighbours who speak a closely related language. Heads up, though: the description for this video appears to have fallen off after "Probably the most courageous". No link to the embassy website either...

[@Archimarathon]

I have added the link. I’ll check again

[@Nynke_K]

@@Archimarathon hey, this is weird: on my Android phone the description looks fine, but in my Chrome browser nothing happens when I click to read the full description. Looks like a KZbin bug rather than anything you can influence! Sorry!

[@nebaka12]

00:04:27 Oh, I misheard

[@Archimarathon]

We are not New Zealanders

[@fastandcurious]

The Scandinavians are so damn pragmatic. In Berlin all Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway Sweden AND Iceland are sharing the same complex. All non bureaucratic stuff is shared again, such as the cantine or the auditorium. Brilliant. If the Baltic countries had already been part of the EU at the start of the planning and construction of the complex in the 90s, they would probably have joined the complex in some way.

[@em9136]

It is pretty interesting looks like another building inside the building, i like also combination of materials especially that concrete wall and glass also metal and wood, this building for me is a High-Tech architecture.

[@andrestroncoso5413]

Really significant content

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks

[@reisiramv]

The president is actually a man, Sauli Niinistö. The woman, Sanna Marin is our prime minister, who admittedly has more political power than the president. Edit: I didn't scroll down enough to see people have already said this

[@hassomanteufel1087]

You have to like it when this Australian MENTIONS Finland. Shit hits differently.

[@brenrich3250]

Awesome! hey, episode idea Architects who didn't or don't have a degrees? Love you guys

[@Archimarathon]

cheers

[@pamelakilponen3682]

Where is the sauna?

[@Archimarathon]

Good question! Not allowed to film or talk about it as it is exterior.

[@Archimarathon]

A bit of digging and you should be able to find the published information on this but I am told not to film to talk about it for security and privacy reasons which is fair enough.

[@pamelakilponen3682]

@@Archimarathon I know they have one in the embassy in Washington, they most likely have one there too.

[@martinwander8295]

I have tried writing a follow up to my post twice and lost it when trying to post

[@Archimarathon]

All good. Any comment is going to help with the KZbin algorithm

[@michelcuypers9456]

Nice 'honest' piece of architecture! It has a Godsellesque feel that reminds me of the peninsula house. I'm only dissapointed by Kevin not wearing a printed plan T-shirt this time ;)

[@Archimarathon]

I might be able to do the Peninsular House as an episode

[@michelcuypers9456]

@@Archimarathon That would be nice!

[@Archimarathon]

Ok. That’s a request. Hey are you on our Discord yet? It feels like PPB but more intense

[@michelcuypers9456]

@@Archimarathon Not yet. Let me check into that.

[@robman2095]

Form follows function for a ship which is designed to deal with the ocean but is not an environment or a structure that is really friendly to human occupation. I think that this building design maintains those ship-like influences well. It has beautiful materials and design elements and is very interesting but I really cannot see why you would want to design a building that retains many of the negative aspects of a ship which compromise human habitation. I would enjoy a visit as these guys did but I can imagine better places to work without some of the compromises of layout, noise and even perhaps privacy that it seems this building would entail.

[@herrakaarme]

Although only the employees themselves could really tell how good or bad the building is to work in, but generally speaking I feel like an embassy is one of the building types where it's reasonable to sacrifice some comfort for the sake of other things. The whole embassy building, not just the people and material inside, represents the country the embassy belongs to. The building is already telling some kind of story about the country, to any visitors. Naturally the staff still needs to be able to do their work and not suffer doing it, but as long as it's tolerable, I'd say a fancy building is better than a boring one.

[@johnkennedy2203]

It might look great but the windows are very difficult to clean just ask the staff

[@DonRaynor]

¨Not sure if Mentioned before, But The dogged attachment to the rules that you commented on is also part of Finnishness. its part of the Finnisch culutre to follow rules, no matter what or where they come. as an example, to this day, Finland is the only nation who paid their WW2 War reparations in full.

[@Archimarathon]

Wow I thought I knew a lot about Finland but I didn’t know this one. But I do know about the rule following. My partner is a Finn

[@Magmoormaster]

The glass floors in the hallways are cool, but they pose a problem for anyone wearing a dress or skirt.

[@ISCDesignArchitect]

yeah transparency is surely UNDERRATED

[@JohnMohn]

I want this for my home

[@Archimarathon]

Me too. We will have to fight over it

[@pona61]

Ylpiä 🇫🇮

[@Jupex]

Can we take a moment and focus on those shoes

[@Archimarathon]

Yeah. They are a thing

[@Sidraughen]

What a beautiful building. Who designed it?

[@Archimarathon]

As mentioned in the video, Hirvonen-Huttunen.

[@Sidraughen]

@@Archimarathon Ah. I somehow missed that. I'm a Finn myself and I would love to visit Straya some day. Especially to dive at the Great Barrier Reef.

[@mohammadabousaeidi5282]

Quite interesting chat.

[@Archimarathon]

Hope it is also an insightful chat

[@mohammadabousaeidi5282]

@@Archimarathon Yeah sure, I'm gonna watch all of your episodes. Lots of things to learn. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@TheLivirus]

Australian embassy in Finland is opaque and forces staff to wear transparent clothes. Thankfully none of the employees have anything to hide.

[@Archimarathon]

Haha. Nah it’s just a Kangaroo court inside

[@craidiefin]

"Battleship Ilmarinen" Got a chuckle out of me. for those who don't know: she was smaller than most cruisers. All I can think of when watching this video is that the architect was told where it was and an instant lighbulb moment "no snow, no need for keeping things warm, time to have *fun*"

[@Archimarathon]

But it was one of the two largest flagships of the Finnish navy

[@aleks5405]

Battleship is a class designation though. Any ship can be a flagship but only certain ships can be battleships, battle cruisers, heavy cruisers, armoured cruiser, light cruisers or torpedo boats.

[@craidiefin]

@@aleks5405 Which is why it got a chuckle out of me. the caliber of the main turret was nearly in battleship territory and armor that rivaled heavy cruisers... Yet the displacement was half of light cruisers and length was tiny.

[@aleks5405]

Yeah. 10'' can be used as main in a BB, but that's at the smaller end of the scale. Too bad that coastal defence ships became obsolete shortly after Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen but at the time it was the correct ship size and tonnage to guard the Finnish coast. I bet Väinämöinen would have been refitted to hell and back deep into the cold war if she had not been taken away as a war reparation.

[@pona61]

Suomes tulis pataan jo lentokentällä

[@hurri7720]

I think it's easier for smaller countries to understand that everybody has to take part and be given that possibility, for a country to function properly. Finland was the first country in the world to give ALL women the right to vote for BOTH men and women. The same goes for totally obvious things like good affordable education for Everybody and in the whole country.

[@juhol2923]

President of Finland is not a woman. It's this bloke: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauli_Niinist%C3%B6

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks Juho. Yes Andrew meant the PM

[@eksiarvamus]

So not just the Embassy of Finland, but also the Embassy of Estonia? Kind of weird to mention only one of the countries then...

[@Archimarathon]

Because it was originally designed as Embassy of Finland only and the part that is now used as Embassy of Estonia was the residences of the Embassy of Finland.

[@Archimarathon]

Our agreement to film was also with the Embassy of Finland only.

[@karrisilantera9810]

Since August 4, 2015 the Embassy of Estonia operates in the premises of the Embassy of Finland in Canberra. So perhaps that’s the reason. Estonian embassy operates in Finnish embassy. But it is great neighbors are in same building in Australia 😃👍

[@julkkis666]

Finland has not had a female president for two terms now. You might be thinking of the prime minister.

[@houndofculann1793]

The weird thing here is that apparently the embassy checked and greenlighted the video beforehand and didn't make that correction

[@kallewangstedt]

Seriöst?! Hur fula skor kan man ha?

[@Archimarathon]

You should see his full collection

[@TurreTuntematon]

Inte är du så snygg heller 😂

[@Chupatsups]

Greetings from Finland. The architecture does not represent the mentality of the nation. It only represents a handful of people who are responsible for the media interaction.

[@aleks5405]

The president of Finland isn't a woman, but yes. A lot of the senior political staff are about 50% male-female. As a Finn, I've always been curious why it's acceptable in foreign nations to say openly sexist things about men, while you are the ones incapable of living in an open society where both sexes are represented through merit.

[@Aquelll]

I think he might have meant Prime Minister but not a big deal. 😊

[@Archimarathon]

The point wasn’t about who is prime minister or president (like many who have commented and got very political) but about gender in politics or women in high places.

[@aleks5405]

@@Archimarathon Since universalism is protected in our constitution, throwing one gender under the bus tends to boil some Finnish blood. Nothing political about this cultural phenomenon.

[@pona61]

No 2022 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🧑‍🎄💖

[@juhah6544]

Thank you for beautiful presentation. As a Finn aways proud of Finland. As @enceladus said allready Washington embassy quite similar architecture but bit bigger. Edit: Link to Washington embassy presentation kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZCbmIippZx6fJo

[@Archimarathon]

That’s by Heikkinen-Komonen around the same time. I think a lot of buildings in Finland at the time has the same feel

[@martinwander8295]

So the architects fir the US embassy were left to design a “decorated shed” to steal a phrase from Venturi and Scott Brown. The facades…iK I’ll stop.

[@pona61]

Ja se saunakin lämpee aussi mut soita eka 😜sähkösauna

[@soumyawithlaser]

“Who wanna get their embussy reviewed?” “Omg me”

[@ilarilapikisto3250]

SUOMI SUOMI SUOMI

[@Archimarathon]

🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@prxtham]

when andrew said that a deck idk why I heard that a di*k 😂😂

[@Archimarathon]

Adopted New Zealand accent

[@jareddiamond6607]

I'm imagining that dresses are a little difficult to wear in this otherwise well thought out folly

[@Tepsunius]

They can see straight in the offices inside because there's windows.

[@Archimarathon]

You need light inside in order to see clearly. The fact that there is a lot of glass on the opposite side allows for us to see clearly through the building.

[@peterbreis5407]

I wonder if the architect came to the site. It is badly oriented to the western sun. The detailing is good however.

[@elipotter369]

Is this a building that birds are going to fly into and break their necks because there is so much reflective glass?

[@LovingGODinFINLAND]

Finland has now a man as a president, Sauli Niinistö and our PM is Sanna Marin, is the youngest woman in the world as a Prime Minister and on top of that almost all other ministers are women too. It's not actually a blessing to the nation to have women or young people running the country, it's God's punishment for sin of the nation. We are having the worst government and ministers in Finnish history ever...

[@yuridonatti5813]

Don't look around Sweden. Don't hesitate Swedish guys hurray hurray go with Finland... tomorrow is gone

[@pona61]

No eteenpäin

[@anssimyllymaki1624]

What? We still have a embassy in Nauztralia? We need to get out of that totalitarian concentration camp now!

[@Charleroifa]

Why is the camera man talking? Why not make it an interview of the subject matter expert?

[@gabybordino6024]

Seems to me that you are new to the channel, and perhaps don´t understand what is it about yet. Both Kevin (who sometimes is behind the camera) and Andrew are experienced architects and educators and they are doing an amazing job visiting, filming, and talking extremely deep about important buildings that many times no one speaks about, and that makes the videos even more valuables. Maybe if you watch a few more episodes, you could experience by yourself what I'm trying to put into words :)

[@MS940]

So here our money went..I think the building is well overdesigned for the place and actual need. On the positive side maybe through this video somebody finally saw it.

[@jong-unkim6277]

This building is ugly. I don't care how designed it is, it is still just UGLY.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for your input Donald Trump