Tag: Helsinki | The Plan

Lauttasaari Church Renovation, restoring functionality while preserving heritage

Verstas Architects

The renovation of Lauttasaari Church focused on refurbishing a landmark of modern Finnish church architecture while carefully preserving its original spirit.

# 2024 # Finalist # Religious Building - Complex (129) # Public (333) # Multifunctional Building - Complex (749)

#Renovation

A story of brick, glass and wood: Karlsson Housing

OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture

Karlsson Housing in Jätkäsaari, a new residential area in a former industrial harbor, offers affordable housing from studios to family apartments and duplexes.

# 2022 # Winners # Residential Building - Complex (575)

#Housing

In the most wonderful libraries in the world, you can read, listen to music, and watch tv series

OPEN Architecture | JKMM Architects | MARU.architecture

Today’s libraries aren’t dusty. And they don’t just have books. Libraries are places to work, listen to music, watch TV series, and relax, just like the living room of your own home

# China (1030) # Library (151) # Finland (29) # Japan (110) # OPEN Architecture (15) # JKMM Architects # MARU.architecture

#What's On

Hot Heart, The “floating forests” for a sustainable and ecological future

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati

Hot Heart stores thermal heat in giant floating basins off the shore for heating in cold seasons, while also doubling as public spaces with tropical ecosystems.

# 2021 # Overall # Infrastructure (175) # Leisure (233) # Public space (489)

#Urban Planning

Hot Heart: artificial islands designed for recreation and thermal energy storage

Carlo Ratti Associati

Hot Heart, a project developed by Helsinki Energy Challenge–winner Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA), has been designed to reduce the CO2 impact of the Finnish capital’s heating systems to reach 2030 targets.

# Masterplan (177) # Finland (29) # Carlo Ratti Associati

#What's On

high-quality architecture: Kruunuvuorenranta Waste Collection Station

B & M Architects Ltd.

Kruunuvuorenranta waste collection station is an innovative three-dimensional concrete casting project inspired by the natural environment on site.

# 2020 # Finalist # Technological facilities (59)

#Special Projects

Oodi Central Library

Ala Architects

Oodi – a new central library for Helsinki will opened in December 2018. The 17,250 sqm library has been designed by Finnish architecture firm ALA Architects, led by Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki and Samuli Woolston.

# Library (151) # Finland (29) # Ala Architects

#Architecture

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PAPERSHEET

DSPAA - De Sanctis Architetti Associati

PAPERSHEET - Helsinki’s Central Library Il progetto per la Helsinki’s Central Library nasce dal desiderio di creare un edificio che mostri nell’immedia

# 2018 # Cultural center (483)

#Culture

LÖYLY

Avanto Architects

The project started from the city of Helsinki initiative. Hernesaari is a former industrial area on the Helsinki seashore that is being developed into a residential area. New uses are being developed for the area, while waiting for future changes to come.

# Finland (29) # Restaurant (242) # Avanto Architects # Spa (55)

#Wood in Architecture

HELSINKI CENTRAL LIBRARY

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The Helsinki Central Library is a building that completes a larger whole, a kind of campus for the cultural and political life restated inside the parliament bu

# 2016 # Winners # Library (151)

#Culture

ALVAR AALTO UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

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context Otaniemi is a mythical name. Alvar Aalto, designed two buildings―the Library and the School of Architecture―that rank today among the most impr

# 2016 # Finalist # University (225)

#Education

EXTENSION BETWEEN THE ALVAR AALTO MUSEUM AND THE MUSEUM OF CENTRAL FINLAND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

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Project idea borns both from the gateway program theme of the extension connecting the Museum of Central Finland and the Alvar Aalto Museum, both the willingnes

# 2016 # Exhibition (438)

#Culture

#Helsinki