Tag Helsinki, Finland

23-11-2022

JKMM-ILO: Helsinki’s Dance House in a former cable factory

The expansion on Finland’s first cable factory, now a cultural centre, is a new volume whose “mute” surfaces fit ideally into the industrial landscape of Salmisaari, Helsinki. JKMM and ILO Architects’ House of Dance represents the face of urban regeneration in the area.

19-10-2022

JKMM: Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts

JKMM designed the headquarters of an important university institution, Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts, in the former industrial district of Sörnäinen. New construction and regeneration are combined in a dynamic interior with a programme open to the community.

12-09-2022

Interior design by Fyra for a kindergarten in Helsinki

The corporate kindergarten located at the headquarters of the mobile game developer Supercell in Helsinki was created based on a design by the Finnish interior design studio Fyra. An intervention that starts from the children’s wellbeing, enabling a visual and physical connection with the surrounding landscape.

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.

25-03-2021

Carlo Ratti Associati’s Hot Heart for the city of Helsinki

The international Helsinki Energy Challenge launched by the government of the city of Helsinki to reduce polluting emissions in cities is over. Helsinki is one of the world capitals most active in combatting climate change, aspiring to achieve zero CO2 emissions by 2030. The Hot Heart solution proposed by the transdisciplinary team led by Carlo Ratti Associati is one of four Challenge winners aiming to make the city carbon-neutral in the near future.

12-01-2021

Helsinki City Museum, making people fall in love with Helsinki

The Helsinki City Museum is on a mission to get people to fall in love with Helsinki. The campus consists of five historical buildings in the oldest part of Finland’s capital, very close to Senate Square. It’s not easy to tell the story of a city and its people, but they’ve made a success of it in Helsinki!

11-01-2021

Kasvattamo, locally grown produce as interpreted by ROOH Studio

The young architects from the Indo-European collective ROOH designed Kasvattao, a temporary installation in one of the Helsinki City Museum’s courtyards, engaging the people of Helsinki and especially the youth to raise their awareness of the concepts of urban farming.

26-11-2020

Everything and Nothing – Architects Kaija + Heikki Siren exhibition

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kaija Siren, two exhibitions in Finland celebrate her work with her husband and colleague, architect Heikki Siren. The exhibition under way at Kamu Museum in Espoo is the first in Finland to offer a complete retrospective of the studio’s architecture, covering works built in various cities all over the world, from the famous Otaniemi Chapel to experimental projects in the garden city of Tapiola and the Baghdad Conference Palace. The exhibition title quotes Italian composer Luigi Nono’s comment on the Sirens’ style: Tutto e niente! This has everything and nothing!

13-02-2020

AOR Architects and the Jätkäsaari School of the future in Helsinki

AOR Architects is a young Finnish studio founded by Erkko Aarti, Arto Ollila and Mikki Ristola and they have just completed their first major project: the Jätkäsaari School in Helsinki. The project is an architectural interpretation of the new Finnish core curriculum and is the only European work to be shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award.