Tag Ala Architects

03-01-2022

ALA Architects, expansion of Terminal 2 of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Finland’s gateway to the world has been renewed with completion of ALA Architects’ expansion of Terminal 2 at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. The new airport terminal welcomes passengers with an impressive timber-clad ceiling expanding outside to form a massive curved canopy roof.

21-11-2018

Highlights of the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Giardini and Forte Marghera

We conclude our reports from the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE with a look at the Giardini, focusing in particular on two proposals from Scandinavia, the Finland pavilion and the work by Rintala Eggertson Architects at Forte Marghera.

09-10-2013

Ala Architects: Kilden Performing Arts Centre in Norway

In Kristiansand, Norway, Finnish architectural studio Ala Architects has built an arts centre containing a large concert hall and a theatre. The history of the project, which began in the ’80s, led to construction of a landmark of great symbolic value; the Kilden has a sculptural shape somewhere between art and architecture, overlooking the city’s waterfront, and its design and use of materials are derived from local history.