Jyväskylä | City

Hospital Nova / JKMM Architects

May 21, 2021

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Architects: JKMM Architects
Area: 116000 m²
Year: 2020

Albertinpiha / JKMM Architects

February 28, 2019

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Architects: JKMM Architects
Area: 2500 m²
Year: 2018
Manufacturers: Wienerberger, Lumon, Modustep Oy, Novart
Professionals: Protacon Oy, Ramboll, Sweco Rakennetekniikka Oy

Puukuokka Housing Block / OOPEAA

November 08, 2018

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Architects: OOPEAA
Area: 18650 m²
Year: 2015
Manufacturers: Kone, Lumon, Parmarine, Profin, Siparila, +1Stora Enso-1
Professionals: Engineering Pertti Ruuskanen Oy, Sweco Rakennetekniikka Oy, A-Insinöörit Oy, KK-Palokonsultti Oy, VSU Landscape Architects

Schauman & Nordgren Architects Wins Competition for "City of Gardens" Masterplan in Finland

February 16, 2017

Schauman & Nordgren Architects has been announced as the winners of an open competition to redesign the old industrial area of Kangas in Jyväskylä, Finland. The winning proposal, titled “Kangas - City of Gardens,” seeks to build off of the success of a recently completed creative campus located within former paper factory by transforming the surrounding neighborhood into a vibrant live/work district containing over 5,000 new homes, 2000 new workplaces and a new educational campus facility.

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Villa Muurame / Marco Casagrande

November 07, 2016

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Architects: Marco Casagrande
Area: 350 m²
Year: 2014
Manufacturers: Muurametalot, Puustelli, Siparila, Tiivi

Alvar Aalto Design Seminar

August 05, 2016

The summer’s most anticipated design and architecture event – the 8th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar, 27–28.8.2016 – brings together design professionals, students and design fans from around the world.

This year’s theme, MAXIMAL I MINIMAL, is an appeal on behalf of high-quality design. The event will be chaired by designer and interior architect Simo Heikkilä, who challenges participants and the twelve speakers to consider the choices made in design work and the sustainability of those choices.

Speakers at the Alvar Aalto Design Seminar will be Jonas Bohlin, Richard Hutten, Jouko Järvisalo, Max Lamb, Hans Lensvelt, Cecilie Manz, Kaoru Mende, Päivi

AD Classics: Jyväskylä University Building / Alvar Aalto

March 28, 2016

Jyväskylä, a city whose status as the center of Finnish culture and academia during the nineteenth century earned it the nickname “the Athens of Finland,” awarded Alvar Aalto the contract to design a university campus worthy of the city’s cultural heritage in 1951. Built around the pre-existing facilities of Finland’s Athenaeum, the new university would be designed with great care to respect both its natural and institutional surroundings.

The city of Jyväskylä was by no means unfamiliar to Aalto; he had moved there as a young boy with his family in 1903 and returned to form his practice in the city after qualifying as an architect in Helsinki in 1923. He was well acquainted with Jyväskylä’s Teacher Seminary, which had been a bastion of the study of the Finnish language since 1863. Such an institution was eminently important in a country that had spent most of its history as part of either Sweden or Russia. As such, the teaching of Finnish was considered an integral part of the awakening of the fledgling country’s national identity.[1]

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Exhibition: Paimio Sanatorium – Light, air and health

February 22, 2016

Paimio Sanatorium, an early major work by Alvar Aalto, is the subject of an exhibition on show in the Gallery at the Alvar Aalto Museum from 12 February to 10 April 2016. The exhibition is based on a conservation management plan prepared for the first time in Finland. The plan involves the most detailed investigation so far of the hospital, which was built for tuberculosis patients.

Exhibition: The Finnish Rowhouse – From Working-Class Housing to Middle-Class Dream

September 30, 2015

'The Finnish rowhouse – from working-class housing to middle-class dream' exhibition is showing gems of this lifestyle familiar to all Finns, with the hand of Alvar Aalto and his architect contemporaries powerfully in evidence.

Based on extensive research by Professor Riitta Nikula, the exhibition tells the intriguing story of the rowhouse, uncovering the eventful history of rowhouse living from the 1900s to the 1960s. The exhibition uses drawings, photographs and films to present this high-quality everyday architecture.

Alvar Aalto Foundation Launches Competition to Form Museum Center in Jyväskylä

June 29, 2015

The Alvar Aalto Foundation and the City of Jyväskylä has launched an open international competition in search of an architect to design an extension that would connect the Alvar Aalto Museum with the Museum of Central Finland, and the surrounding outdoor area. The aim is to connect these two key Aalto works to form an attractive, high-quality museum center.

“On the initiative of the Alvar Aalto Foundation we set about taking the matter forwards, our hope being to hold an international design competition. It is wonderful to be involved, via the competition, in linking the museum buildings together, something that Alvar Aalto had originally intended,” says Director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation Tommi Lindh. Read on to learn more.

DO! 13th International Alvar Aalto Symposium

June 05, 2015

The Alvar Aalto Symposium gathers together top names in contemporary architecture. This year’s international figures include American architect Greg Lynn, one of the Symposium’s keynote speakers. In line with the theme of the event – DO! – speakers will be rolling up their sleeves and personally opening up about what architects and urban planners really do. The symposium will be held on 7–9 August 2015 in Jyväskylä, Finland.