Helsinki

+ 24

• Architects

  SevilPeach

• Location

  Helsinki, Finland

• Lead Architects

  Carla Rocneanu

• Curtains

  Nina Veki, Contract Deco Oy, Helsinki

• Area

  470.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Tuomas Uusheimo Photography

+ 16

• Architects

  Talli Architecture and Design

• Location

  Helsinki, Finland

• Lead Architects

  Pia Ilonen, Mikaela Neuvo

• Area

  6302.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Tuomas Uusheimo

Finnish office Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects have won the competition to design a new high-rise district in Helsinki. Proposing a cluster of public space and triangular plan towers, the firm will see the phased construction of the high-density, mixed-use towers and public space alongside construction firm YIT. Located in the Pasila district, the project is called Trigoni as a reference to the triangular plan of the towers and the desire to create strong connections around sustainable development.

+ 20

OOPEAA, working in collaboration with Lundén Architecture Company, has won a design and build competition for a timber housing development in Kivistö, Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area of Finland. Organized by the City of Vantaa, the competition asked entrants to design a district of wooden housing, part of a commitment “to provide climate-conscious development in housing.”

Titled “Upstairs – Downstairs, Living Together on Three Levels,” the OOPEAA and Lundén scheme will form part of the broader sustainable district, creating a link between natural forest, active streets, and railway infrastructure.

In the quest for carbon neutrality, the City of Helsinki in Finland announced its action plans to minimize greenhouse gas emissions substantially by 2035. The city’s fully owned energy company, Helen Ltd, a producer of district heating, power, and district cooling, aims to augment this policy by converting its largely coal and natural gas energy production processes to climate-neutral energy production, thereby eliminating carbon dioxide emissions fully by 2050.

OOPEAA (Office for Peripheral Architecture) has won an invited competition for the design of the Allas Sea Pool Family in Helsinki, Finland. Constructed on floating platforms, and designed as a modular, flexible, adjustable system, the Allas Sea Pool Family is intended to be a new global typology for coastal sites, where building on land is not feasible.

The invited competition asked entrants to submit proposals which responded to varying environmental and seasonal conditions, with OOPEAA ultimately chosen for their “strong concept that places the floating spa in a central location in the city.”

+ 11

The Helsinki Central Library Oodi, designed by ALA Architects, is nearing completion in Finland. Due to open its doors on December 3rd 2018, the library is situated in the cultural district of Töölönlahti, where it will sit as a ”powerful and iconic temporary design” among other architectural landmarks.

Situated across from the Finnish Parliament House, the scheme represents an interaction between the state and its citizens, “a new avenue to promote freedom of speech and democracy.”

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+ 23

• Architects

  Playa Architects

• Location

  Koirasaarentie 32, 00870 Helsinki, Finland

• Lead Architects

  Johanna Ojanlatva, Veikko Ojanlatva, Tuukka Vuori

• Design Team

  Ilona Palmunen, Kristian Kontula, Heini Saari

• Area

  6200.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Tuomas Uusheimo, Tuukka Vuori

Finland based Futudesign has been announced as the winner of a competition which invited firms to repurpose part of the Helsinki Central Railway Station. The design, which will transform the station’s underutilized eastern wing into a hotel, both reinterprets and modernizes Eliel Saarinen's original architectural intent.

+ 16

+ 27

• Architects

  Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects

• Location

  Itäkatu 1-7, 00930 Helsinki, Finland

• Lead Architect

  Ilmari Lahdelma

• Area

  66000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Kuvio, Kuudes

OOPEAA and Lujatalo worked together to design the winning proposal for a new multi-functional church and social housing project for Tikkurila, Helsinki entitled Church in the City. The project is unique in the way that the architect, builder, and client participated in a highly collaborative design process.

+ 7

+ 27

• Architects

  ORTRAUM

• Location

  Helsinki, Finland

• Architect in Charge

  Martin Lukasczyk

• Area

  230.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Marc Goodwin

+ 37

• Architects

  Marco Casagrande

• Location

  Helsinki, Finland

• Area

  37.5 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Jenni Gästgivar, Nikita Wu

Ten third-year furniture design students from Finland's Lahti University of Applied Sciences - Institute of Design, created temporary living solutions using only plywood and corrugated cardboard. Low cost, quick and easy fabrication, with no tools necessary: Rehome is a solution for recent catastrophes, such as natural disasters and the ongoing refugee crisis, which leave many people displaced from their homes.

+ 16

The renovation of the Aalto University Harald Herlin Learning Centre in Otaniemi, designed by NRT Architects in collaboration with JKMM Architects (interiors), has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Finlandia Prize for Architecture. Completed in 2016, the project is the first renovation to be awarded the prize. The original building was completed in 1970 to fit into the Alvar Aalto-designed Otaniemi campus plan.

Now in its fourth year, the prize was established to “increase public awareness of high quality Finnish architecture and [to highlight] its benefits for our well-being.” Last year, APRT Architects’ Rovaniemi Sports Arena, Railo took home top honors.

+ 14

• Architects

  &' [Emmi Keskisarja & Janne Teräsvirta & Company Architects], Y-team

• Location

  Seurasaarentie 11, 00250 Helsinki, Finland

• Y-Team

  &' [Emmi Keskisarja & Janne Teräsvirta & Company Architects], Tommi Alatalo, Antrei Hartikainen, Kaleidoscope Nordic AS, Irmelin Rose Fisch Vågen

• Lead Architects and Structural Design

  Emmi Keskisarja, Janne Teräsvirta, Tommi Alatalo, Antrei Hartikainen

• Area

  15.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  SWANG

+ 33

• Architects

  Aalto University Wood Program

• Location

  Annankatu 30, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

• Area

  81.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Marc Goodwin, Philip Tidwell