Helsinki.Projects Helsinki, Finland. Alvar Aalto Studio Helsinki, Finland Alvar Aalto atelier, museum. University of Helsinki Library

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1 Helsinki Projects 23 Created 01-Sep-16 By indre z, Vilnius, Lithuania Studio Helsinki, atelier, museum Otaniemi Technical University Library House of Culture Kamppi Chapel of Silence Sörnäisten Helsinki Music Center ia Hall Sanoma House 7 Hotel Paasitorni Rautatalo Office Building 14 KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art 15 Parliament House 16 Stockmann department store 17 Helsinki, Sigurd Frosterus shopping centre 8 Salmisaaren Liikuntakeskus 18 Helsinki, Arkkitehtitoimisto Pekka Lukkaroinen fitness club, mixed-use development, sport 9 Public Attic 19 Helsinki, Casagrande Laboratory community centre, pavilion 10 Temppeliaukio Church 20 Helsinki, Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen church 11 Helsinki, Antti-Matti Siikala office Helsinki, Johan Sigfrid Sirén government Helsinki, museum, private house 6 Helsinki, congress centre The Aalto House 13 Helsinki, Steven Holl culture, exposition space, museum Helsinki, LPR s education, music theatre 5 Helsinki, Hannunkari & Mäkipaja apartment, housing University of Helsinki Library Helsinki, office Helsinki, K2S chapel 4 Helsinki, theatre Helsinki, Anttinen Oiva Arkkitehdit library Espoo, cafe, library, university 3 Parliament Annexe 21 Helsinki, Helin & Co s government 12 Helsinki, K2S hotel Academic Bookshop 22 Helsinki, 1

2 City center offices Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen office 23 HTC Helsinki Stora Enso Oy Headquarters 25 Helsinki, office 24 Helsinki, arkitektur plus development ab office 2

3 photo: Lydia Gonzalez Dios photo: Lydia Gonzalez Dios Studio Tiilimäki Helsinki designed the building as his own office in 1955 Because of a number of large commissions, the office needed more space to work in The building is only a short walk from Aalto's own house, where the office had previously been located Studio Aalto is one of the best of 's 1950s buildings The white-rendered, wall-like, closed-in mass of the building conceals a garden shaped like an amphitheatre in its inner courtyard The office staff could sit on the slate steps of the amphitheatre, listen to lectures or watch slide shows projected on the white wall The principal space in the building is the curving studio which has a view opening onto the courtyard Horizontal battens fixed to the high walls of the studio allowed drawings to be displayed there The rear wall is covered with climbing plants reaching up to the high-level windows and prototypes of light fittings designed by are hung in front of the wall The slanting bay window of the conference room photo: Rauno Träskelin // Foundation 1955 gonzalezdioslydia Visits: Tuesday to Friday onlyat 1230pm 2009: Open only at 1130 from Tuesday-Sunday In August open at 1130 from Monday-Sunday Admission fee 17 Euro Students and senior citizens 7 Euro Groups of over 10 persons 10 Euro per person The admission fee includes guided tour Groups preferred to be agreed in advance, max20 people at one time Directions Tram 4 from Helsinki; north on Mannerheimintie street to last stop at Munkkiniemi (approx 30 min ride from the tram stop at the SOKOS department store) Walk west one block on Laajalahdentie, after sports field turn right on Riihitie 3

4 photo: Lydia Gonzalez Dios photo: Lydia Gonzalez Dios Otaniemi Technical University Library Otakaari Espoo "The library closes off at an oblique angle the third side of the park/court established by the main buildings of the Institute of Technology, begun twenty-two years previously As a major reference library, the main problem was to provide good working conditions for the students over a three-storey basement for the library stacks These spaces, and the small lending collection are housed in a faceted volume on the side, away from the main buildings In the rectilinear tail of the building, offices and seminar rooms are provided" From: David Dunster, ed ural Monographs 4: p48 photo: Lydia Gonzalez Dios 1969 gonzalezdioslydia Campus area open for visitors Library: Monday to Friday 8am-21pm, Saturday 9am -16pm (June 1 - August 31: Monday 8-18, Tuesday to Friday 8-16) 4

5 photo: photo: Jorge Losada House of Culture Sturenkatu Helsinki The House of Culture in Helsinki is Aalto in his 'red brick period' He achieves the free-form curves of the concert hall walls using wedge-shaped bricks, arranged variously with their shorter edge facing inside or outside the wall The impact of the solid brick walls must be seen in the context of what had gone before In, the National-Romantics had used wood and granite to show closeness to Finnish nature, while the modern movement (as elsewhere) used more abstract white plaster surfaces (which did not wear well particularly in the Finnish climate) Aalto's red brick was therefore a bigger statement than it now seems: a man-made material that keeps its individuality and local personality The House of Culture combines a concert hall (in curved red brick), an office building (a conventional rectangle in form, but with a visually striking facade brought alive by greening copper), and a lecture-theatre block connecting the two photo: Jorge Losada

6 Kamppi Chapel of Silence Simonkatu Helsinki Kamppi Chapel of Silence is located in a corner of the Narinkkatori square in Helsinki, at the entrance of the Kamppi shopping center The Chapel is intended to be place where people can have a moment of silence and meet each other Floor area/size m² K2S Monday to Friday: 7 am - 8pm Saturdays and Sundays: 10am 6pm 6

7 Sörnäisten Sörnäisten Helsinki Now that the harbour operations have left Kalasatama, the area is is being developed to a centre of business and housing The beautiful maritime milieu is the perfect place to enjoy life, with effective public transport and a central location making Kalasatama an easily accessible work environment near the city centre The transformation of a former gasometer in Suvilahti into a cultural centre adds further value to the area 2011 Hannunkari & Mäkipaja 7

8 photo: Gerlinde Goudswaard photo: Gerlinde Goudswaard Helsinki Music Center Mannerheimintie 13a Helsinki The Helsinki Music Center (Finnish: Helsingin musiikkitalo) is a concert hall and a music center in Helsinki It is located on the site of the former VR warehouses, which is between 's ia Hall and KIASMA Museum (Steven Holl) The main hall seats 1700 people Besides that it hosts five smaller auditoriums In addition, the building accommodates some premises of the Sibelius Academy, coffee shops and a restaurant The project was started already in 1992 Finally the Music Center opened in the autumn of 2011 photo: Gerlinde Goudswaard Floor area/size m² Client LPR s Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sibelius Academy Gerlinde 500 meter from Helsinki Central Railway Station 8

9 ia Hall Mannerheimintie Helsinki ia Hall is the leading congress and concert venue in Helsinki Centrally located in park-like surroundings, ia Hall is ideal for conferences, concerts and exhibitions, as well as smaller meetings, concerts and light entertainment ia Hall has hosted numerous international congresses and other events over the yearsthere's simply no other conference venue like it in A masterpiece by the great Finnish architect, ia Hall is worth a visit in its own right, and is visited by thousands of people a year from all over the world 1975 gonzalezdioslydia Open from Monday through Friday 8-17 Entrance fee (guided tour) EUR 6/adults, EUR 4/children, students, seniors Group tours enquiries Tel +358-(0) Fax +358 (0) , palvelupiste (at) finlandiatalofi 9

10 photo: Filipe Brandão The Aalto House Riihitie Helsinki In 1934, Aino and Alvar acquired a site in almost completely untouched surroundings at Riihitie in Munkkiniemi The house was designed as both a family home and an office The slender mass of the office wing is in white-painted, lightly rendered brickwork The cladding material of the residential part is slender, dark-stained timber battens It has a flat roof and a large south-facing terrace Although the street elevation is severe and closed-off, it's softened by climbing plants and a slate path There are already signs of the 'new' Aalto, the Romantic Functionalist The plentiful use of wood as a finishing material and 4 open hearts built in brick also point to this It anticipates the 2-year younger Villa Mairea, a luxury residence where Aalto's creativity was able to come into full bloom But in contrast to its larger sister, the Aalto House is a cosy, intimate building for living and working, designed by two architects for themselves, using simple uncluttered materials photo: Filipe Brandão filipeb The Aalto House is open in December and January only by agreement Winter time (October 1 - November 30 and February 1 - April 31) Tuesday to Sunday, guided tours at 1400, 1500, 1600 and 1700 Summer time (May 1 - July 31 and September 1-31) Tuesday to Sunday, guided tours at 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600 and 1700 In August 2008 open from Monday to Sunday Max 20 people at one time enquiries and reservations: tel +358 (0)

11 Sanoma House Mannerheiminaukio Helsinki Sanoma House is situated in ia Park, a cultural oasis in the heart of Helsinki, north of the Helsinki railway station, beside Kiasma (the Museum of Contemporary Art) and the Music Centre It houses the editorial offices of Helsingin Sanomat, Ilta-Sanomat and Taloussanomat, among others 2011 Antti-Matti Siikala 11

12 Hotel Paasitorni Paasivuorenkatu Helsinki A 170 room hotel will form the latest addition to the 100 year old monumental Paasitorni building in Helsinki While parts of the existing building will be converted, the most radical changes take place in the courtyard, where an existing building will be replaced by a new hotel wing Floor area/size m² K2S 12

13 University of Helsinki Library Kaisaniemenkatu Helsinki A building on Kaisaniemenkatu-Kajsaniemigatan was renovated into a library for four faculties of the University of Helsinki Anttinen Oiva Arkkitehdit It is very near the main railway station 13

14 Rautatalo Office Building Keskuskatu Helsinki Building planned by in 1951, 1955 and

15 photo: David Uró Vilanova photo: David Uró Vilanova KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Mannerheiminaukio Helsinki Kiasma lies in the heart of Helsinki at the foot of the Parliament building, with Saarinen's Helsinki Station on the eastside and Aalto's ia Hall on the north The concept intertwines the building's mass with the geometry of the city and landscape An implicit cultural line curves to link the building to ia Hall, similarly engaging a natural line connecting the adjacent landscape and Töölo Bay Asymmetrical in design, the museum is a slightly warped gallery of rooms Curved sequences provide mystery and surprise The visitor is confronted with a continuously changing perspective, connecting the internal and overall concept of intertwining Variation in room shape and size due to the gently curving building section allows the 25 galleries to be naturally lit, taking advantage of Helsinki's horizontal light 1998 Client Steven Holl Ministry of Public Building duv_ photo: David Uró Vilanova Tue: 10 am-5 pm, Wed-Sun: 10 am-830 pm, 15

16 Parliament House Mannerheimvägen Helsinki Sirén designed Parliament House in an architectural style combining Neoclassicism with early twentieth century modernism Sirén's combination of simplified columns and balusters with simplified planar geometry bears comparison to similar explorations by Erik Gunnar Asplund and Jo?e Ple?nik The exterior is red Kalvola granite The façade is lined by fourteen columns with Corinthian capitals The building has five floors, each of which is unique The floors are connected by a white marble staircase and famous paternoster lifts Most important for visitors are the main lobby, the stately Session Hall and the large Hall of State Notable later additions to the building are the library annex completed in 1978 and a separate office block, the Pikkuparlamentti (English: Little Parliament), the necessity of which was an object of some controversy, completed in Johan Sigfrid Sirén Guided tours are arranged on Saturdays at 11:00 and 12:30 and on Sundays at 12:00 and 13:30; in July and August also at 14:00 on weekdays Tuesdays and Fridays you can watch the Parliament in session from the public balcony 16

17 Stockmann department store Mannerheimvägen Helsinki The Stockmann department store is a culturally significant business building and department store located in the centre of Helsinki, It is one of many department stores owned by the Stockmann corporation Annually, about 17 million customers visit the store and it is thus the largest department store in It is also the largest department store in the Nordic countries in terms of area and total sales 1930 Sigurd Frosterus 17

18 photo: Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy photo: Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy Salmisaaren Liikuntakeskus Energiakatu Helsinki It's a huge sports center with facilities for indoor climbing and beach volley in addition to regular gyms etc At 30 meters the climbing wall is the highest in Floor area/size m² Arkkitehtitoimisto Pekka Lukkaroinen 18

19 photo: Yehia Eweis photo: Yehia Eweis Public Attic Mannerheimintie Helsinki This project, A Public Attic for Helsinki, was part of the Helsinki Festival in 2004 and faced the Parliament of All the materials used were recycled from various construction sites in Helsinki This way, it was a temporary collage of material streams produced by the city A city can have an attic, a public attic to reflect the collective subconscious During the festival, people were bringing objects to the Public Attic and exchanged them for free This way, the building became a small, spontaneous community centre and a form of improvised architecture All the objects are tied to stories This way, the attic is also a narrative space For the construction of the Public Attic a team from the Bauhaus University, consisting of Christian Edlinger, Dirk Schultz and Daniel Guishardt, was essential The attic was demolished after the festival photo: Yehia Eweis Floor area/size m² Client Casagrande Laboratory Helsinki Festival Casagrande The Public Attic was demolished after the Helsinki Festival in

20 photo: Piotr Krajewski photo: Piotr Krajewski Temppeliaukio Church Lutherinkatu Helsinki Temppeliaukio Church is a Lutheran church in the Töölö neighbourhood of Helsinki The Temppeliaukio (Temple square) was selected as a location for a church in the 1930s, but the plan by J S Siren, the winner of two competitions to design the church, was interrupted in its early stages because of WWII After the war, there was another architectural competition, which was won by Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen in 1961 For economic reasons, the suggested plan was scaled back and the interior space of the church reduced by about one-quarter of the original plan Construction finally began in February of 1968, and the rock temple was completed for consecration in 1969 The interior was excavated and built into the rock, but is bathed in natural light entering through the glazed dome The church is used frequently as a concert venue due to its excellent acoustics photo: Piotr Krajewski Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen pkrajewski_pl Monday & Tuesday: (in winter: Tuesday: :45 & ) / Wednesday: / Thursday & Friday: / Saturday: / Sunday: 11: & / Closed during religious services 20

21 photo: Voitto Niemelä photo: Voitto Niemelä Parliament Annexe Arkadiankatu Helsinki The red-granite Parliament House designed by JS Sirén and completed in 1931, is a familiar landmark for visitors to Helsinki When the old premises could no longer meet the need of the day, additional space was found on a patch of parkland next to the Parliament House, although separated from it by a road An international competition was launched in 1998, and won by Helin & Co s The annexe is divided into two distinct sections: a triangular, higher mass located by the roadside, and a low, curved wing Between these sections lies a semicircular atrium the height of the entire building, bringing light into the heart of the exceptionally deep plan The façade of the triangular section was originally intended to be glazed, but this had to be exchanged for burnt-clay brick for reasons of city scaping and security concerns In contrast, the curved section has a glazed double façade, to emphasize the open nature of Nordic democracy and its links with the public photo: Voitto Niemelä 2004 Client Helin & Co s The Finnish Parliament Anne_Veinola The ground floor of the triangular section contains facilities open to the public: a bookshop, a café and an information office Guided tours: Saturdays 11 am and 12:30 noon, Sundays 12 noon and 13:30 pm 21

22 Academic Bookshop Keskuskatu Helsinki Designed in competition in 1962, though not built until , Aalto's Academic Bookshop provides a bright, attractive but businesslike interior piazza, lit by geometric, almost crystalline glass skylights and surrounded by beautiful, austere white marble The deep, bright interior is unexpected behind the dark, copper office facade, and successfully creates a place that is more than just a store

23 City center offices Keskuskatu 1B Helsinki nki/keskusta/keskuskatu-1-b City center offices designed by Eliel Saarinen 1920 Eliel Saarinen 23

24 HTC Helsinki Tammasaarenkatu Helsinki HTC Helsinki, 's first High Tech Center, is located on Tammasaarenkatu street in the seaside environment of Helsinki's Ruoholahti district The five HTC buildings, which were completed in 2001, were named after explorers' ships: Columbus' Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, Nordenskjöld's Vega, and Heyerdal's Kon-Tiki Some 30 companies providing 1,500 jobs operate from rented floor space totaling approximately 36,000 m2 The buildings were designed by Kai Wartiainen Oy, an architect's office, in cooperation with Evata Oy Floor area/size m² arkitektur plus development ab 24

25 Stora Enso Oy Headquarters Kanavaranta Helsinki Building planned by in No entrance to the building 25