The Museum of central Finland

The renovation of the Museum of Central Finland The museum of central Finland, designed by architect Alvar Aalto, was completed in 1960 in Ruusupuro, Jyväskylä. The building is plastered white and represents Aalto’s white period. The museum consists of an L-shaped building with three floors. The expansion, completed in 1990, was planned by architectural company Alvar…

Orvokki Cultural centre

Orvokki Cultural centre The Orvokki cultural centre consists of three school buildings completed in different time periods. The Real Estate Centre of Vantaa ordered the plans for the renovation and remodelling of Orvokki from our office in 2018. The buildings are used by Vantaa art school and the Music College. The two oldest buildings are…

Kindergarten Veturi

Kindergarten Veturi The plot of Kindergarten Veturi is located at the end of the park network that begins at the Town hall in the centre of Tikkurila. The central area is being dramatically renewed, but still revolves around a green, sparse, suburban and layered construction where the varying scale stands out. The planning of the…

HEKA Ruususenrinne

HEKA Ruususenrinne HEKA Ruususenrinne is an urban infill project in eastern Helsinki designed with careful consideration of its surroundings. The group of buildings form a living environment in human scale, offering a wide range of rental apartments from terraced houses with their own yard to studio apartments. The curving 5-storey building has a single loaded…

Matinkylä ja Espoonlahti Fire Stations

Matinkylä ja Espoonlahti Fire Stations Espoo arranged a competition on two fire stations for contractors, one in Espoonlahti and other one in Matinkylä. Both were won by Tricon Oy on which Architects A-konsultit did the architectural design and planning. For functional reasons it was considered necessary to keep both buildings almost identical in the spatial…

Kettutie

Kettutie Three apartment blocks, an underground parking facility and a shared yard for the whole block will be built as an addition to block 43123 in western Herttoniemi. Seven buildings, as Hitas-, right of occupancy-, and rental productions, will be constructed on the plots located on a rocky slope. The roofs of the point- and…

HUS-Apartments Bahamankatu 3

HUS-Apartments Bahamankatu 3 The City reserved a housing block in Jätkäsaari for Hoas, HUS and AYY. The total floor area ratio of the plot is 16 800 sq. m, which according to Helsinki City Council was distributed equally to the three organizations. Our office was commissioned to plan the constructions on HUS´s plot. A sheltered,…