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Architects: ALA Architects
- Area: 4437 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Tuomas Uusheimo
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Interior Design: ALA Architects, Antti Nurmesniemi
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Landscape: Jasleen Waraich Landscape Architecture, Maj-Lis Rosenbröijer
Text description provided by the architects. Reima and Raili Pietilä won the design competition for the Finnish Embassy to be located in the diplomatic enclave in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi in 1963 with a beautiful and powerful competition entry called “Snow speaks on the mountains”. After a lengthy delay, the project was commissioned in 1980 and redesigned based on the original concept. The Embassy finally opened in 1986 with the large single expanse of the roof of the 1960’s design broken up into six separate lateral buildings around a central garden area. The sculptural roofs - the most significant architectural feature of the embassy compound - resemble the forms of the snowy Lake Kitkajärvi near Kuusamo, Northern Finland.
