YIT are building a development with apartment blocks that tentatively step over the water, the Architects are NRT. This is a first in Finland and it looks like a high quality development. As you can see its a quite suburban in character although so central, so it would be interesting to see the results of a similar approach with a more urban character somewhere in Helsinki. (all photos from YIT)
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Tasa, the architect behind this, gave us a lecture on which he briefly touched this projects among others. He mentioned the problems on maintaining the quality of the competition winning entry when bringing it into reality. After all, YIT is not known for spending too much…
The Architects should be congratulated for that then. Thanks for the comment because I couldn’t find the name of the Architect from the YIT website…..My bad Finnish I guess.
You can read it only from first pdf-attachment on the site. I would’ve probably missed it too if I hadn’t known it before hand.
btw. can I ask who you work for?
Jukka,
I work for Innovarch here in Espoo, and what about you?
SARC Architects in Ruoholahti.
Nice one! They do excellent work. The Kone Building is maybe the best office building I know in Finland and of course they produce very high quality work all round.
Yeah, I’ve been here for few weeks now (did some work from home while still living in Oulu) and enjoying it a lot.
Isn’t Jyrki Tasa the architect with the classic staircase in his house in Kivenlahti? I was drawing his house years ago, and passed me on the way out, said I should come back for a tour another day…but I thought he retired which is why I’m trying to link it with the name above..
(I guess then Lewism, you’ve grown out of the Pakistani lunch place in the mall just down from you…)
Isn’t Jyrki Tasa the architect with the classic staircase in his house in Kivenlahti?
Lashie,
You would know better than me I think! You also seem to know my area, I haven’t been to the Pakistani restaurant yet though.
Tasa hasn’t retired. He’s currently practising in Arkkitehdit NRT and a professor of contemporary architecture at University of Oulu, Department of Architecture (where I am a student).
Do you mean the Talo Into with the staircase or perhaps Moby Dick’s staircase?