Category: Customer Stories

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:  The project developer and construction company YIT operates in nine European countries, building apartments, commercial premises, public buildings, and infrastructure. Regardless of the location or the scale of the project, the goal is to create good, attractive urban environments that are pleasant for people to live and work in.  Digital tools are widely used […]

How does data open new perspectives for architects? In this film the Spacemaker team heads to Helsinki to meet architect Richard Hogan from the award-winning Finnish architecture practice ARCO. Richard discusses how Spacemaker’s data-driven tools give the team a richer view of the buildings they’re designing to help them solve more at the early phase, […]

Executive summary How can data give architects deeper insights, and help them transform even the most challenging urban sites into something valuable for the city and its residents? This was the case for the Malmi student housing project in Helsinki designed by ARCO, Finland’s largest architecture practice. Part of a series of new urban developments […]

Executive summary As future challenges for urban city planning such as population growth and sustainability become more urgent, architects are tasked with not only re-envisioning how we live, but also how and where we work. For example, the future of work sees commercial districts connecting better to the local community and to the public, incorporating […]

Executive summary The future is always present in the work of architects and urban planners, but what does it look like? And what does it mean to future-proof a city, landscape or building? For award-winning Danish practice Cobe, the answer lies in the ‘extraordinary everyday’, be it the simple act of biking or a community-centered approach […]

Executive summary: Trondheim-based Per Knudsen Arkitektkontor (PKA) is the largest architecture firm in mid-Norway. Specializing in residential projects, PKA takes pride in being at the forefront of using the latest digital tools. So when Axel Kristoffersen, architect and managing director at PKA, first heard about Spacemaker he was, unsurprisingly, intrigued. “There are many tools that can do […]

Spacemaker teamed up with Sweco Architects to host The Architect Challenge at Gather Inn 2021 in Stockholm, an inspiring full-day event that explored societal issues from urban challenges to innovation and technology. With the help of Spacemaker, architect Johan Bengtsson and urban planner and digital strategist Adam Sjödin had just six hours to propose a new masterplan […]

What does the site tell us? How can we help improve social and ecological sustainability? And how can we make spaces that adapt over time to fit people’s changing needs? These questions are some of the drivers of Mei architects and planners’ work. Whether it’s adaptive reuse, new build or urban planning, Mei’s projects center on lively, […]

More municipal city planners are starting to use Spacemaker in their effort to manage the complexity of urban planning.