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Architects: Architects NRT, JKMM Architects
- Area: 7505 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Tuomas Uusheimon
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Manufacturers: Artek, BTJ, Eero Aarnio, Engelbrechts, F-inno, Glamox, Ilmiö, Innolux, Interior partners, Isku, Johanna Gullichsen, Koolmat, Kvadrat, Laaksonen, Lepo, Martela, Merianto, Orient-Occident, Vivero, Wastberg, +2
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Lead Architects: Arkkitehdit NRT Oy
Text description provided by the architects. This is JKMM’s second project reworking an Alvar Aalto designed library. The first was at Seinäjoki where the existing library was extended with a new copper-clad wing. At Otaniemi, JKMM was appointed to restore and update the listed Modernist interiors in the upper floors of the building and to create wholly new interiors to its lower floors that were previously used as bookstores. These have been remodeled to house new media spaces as well as to enable both solitary and collaborative ways of working, research as well as social interaction.
