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Event Center Satama / ALA Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The newly opened Event Centre Satama is located in Kantasatama, the oldest port of Kotka, just a couple of steps from the impressive Maritime Centre Vellamo, which has been standing in the port area already for 15 years. The events center shares its lot with the new campus building of the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, currently under construction, and a future hotel.

Courtyard by Marriott Tampere City Hotel / ALA Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The Courtyard Tampere City Hotel which opened at the beginning of 2020, is an elegant addition to the rapidly changing cityscape of Tampere in southern Finland. It shares its lot with the postmodern Tampere Hall concert and congress center completed in 1990.

Saukonlaituri Parking Facility / ALA Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000

The City of Helsinki is redeveloping its former harbor areas for residential use. One of these areas, the vacated 100-hectare cargo port and dockyard in Jätkäsaari, right next to the city center, will, when completed, contain housing for 21,000 people and workplaces for another 6,000. As building all the required residential parking capacity underground, below sea level would be restrictively expensive, combined with the aim to reduce street-side parking, the city has commissioned a series of architecturally ambitious over-ground parking facilities to cover the residential parking needs in the neighborhood.

Helsinki Airport Extension / ALA Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

The newly opened expansion of Helsinki Airport brings adventure and romance back to air travel. It also improves the functionality of the airport, built in multiplephases starting from the 50s. In 2016, the airport operator Finavia launched a design competition for theexpansion and modification of terminal 2.The competition task included relocating the departures and arrivals halls to a new building so that the existing departures hall of terminal 2 could be turned into gate areas.

Embassy of Finland in New Delhi Renovation / ALA Architects

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:00:00 +0000

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.

Oodi Helsinki Central Library / ALA Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 02:00:00 +0000

Oodi occupies a hugely significant site in central Helsinki: facing the steps of the Finnish parliament building, the Eduskuntatalo across the Kansalaistori square, a public space flanked by major civic institutions.

Aalto University Metro Station / ALA Architects + Esa Piironen Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:00:00 +0000

The first phase of the western extension of the Helsinki metropolitan area subway line, the West Metro, opened for traffic on November 18, 2017, connects Ruoholahti, Helsinki to Matinkylä, Espoo. The West Metro will service over 170,000 passengers per day. The objective that has been set for the architecture of the eight new stations along the first, and the five new stations along the second phase of the extension is to create distinctive, location-specific identities for them on both urban and interior scale. At the same time the metro will act as a link between the various urban centers of the City of Espoo and in a way create its new backbone.

Dipoli - Aalto University Main Building / ALA Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:00:00 +0000

Dipoli, the listed iconic and experimental student union building of Helsinki University of Technology designed by Raili and Reima Pietilä and completed in 1966 has gone through a complete renovation and gotten a new life as the main building of Aalto University. The building reopened for fall semester 2017.

Helsinki Airport to Be Transformed with Undulating Roof and Public Landscape

Patrick Lynch — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:15:00 +0000

The team consisting of ALA Architects, HKP Architects and Ramboll Finland has won an invited competition for the renovation and expansion of Helsinki Airport’s Terminal 2 with their entry titled “City Hall.” Organized by Finnish airport operator Finavia, the competition asked four international firms to create a new airport plan centered around a reenvisioned terminal that will allow the airport to efficiently serve up to 20 million passengers per year.

Lappeenranta City Theatre / ALA Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 05:00:00 +0000

The concept for the Lappeenranta City Theatre is exceptional: the theater has been built on the top floor of a shopping center. The idea, however, is ancient as this is theater coming back to its roots, back to the marketplace, back to the people. Millions of people visiting the shopping center annually will be able to enjoy a variety of plays, while the restaurants cater for intermissions and the hotel offers accommodation.

Kuopio City Theatre / ALA Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The existing Kuopio City Theatre is a 1960’s modernist building by architects Helmer Stenros and Risto-Veikko Luukkonen. The expansion includes a new 200-seat studio stage with flexible seating and stage mechanics. New spaces are also provided for loading and logistics, costume manufacturing and storage, and support functions of the new stage.

Hipsterkasbah / ALA Architects

James Taylor-Foster — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

ALA Architect's submission for Aalto University's Campus2015 international design competition proposed a "conglomerate of buildings to form an incubator of activity." Their aim was to "connect existing structures and projects to create a new areal hotspot, an urban concentration with vivid street life" in order to nurture an "open display of creativity."

Helsinki Central Library Winning Proposal / ALA Architects

Alison Furuto — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

ALA Architects have just won the design competition for the new Helsinki Central Library with their entry “Käännös”. Located in the heart of Helsinki, the 16,000 square meter library building will consist almost entirely of public spaces and will offer a wide selection of services. It will serve as the new central point for the city’s impressive public library network and is slated to open in 2018. More images and architects' description after the break.

Kilden / ALA Architects

Victoria King — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Performing Arts Centre “KILDEN” will house three organizations: the ‘Agder Theater’, the ‘Kristiansand Philharmonic’ and the ‘Opera South’. The four performance halls are lined up in the mid-zone of the building leaving the production -spaces to the east and audience -spaces to the west side. Further on the west along the waterside, a huge cantilevered roof will cover both the public city-space by the sea and the foyer space which provides access to the shows. Waterfront-facade clad with local oak follows the forms defined by the halls and creates a surface separating real world from the illusional.