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“With Amos Rex, Helsinki shows you don’t need to import a brand to get cultural prestige”

August 31, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Helsinki’s new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn’t the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. The arrival of the impressive Amos Rex art museum in Helsinki has vindicated the city’s decision to reject the Guggenheim franchise. An expansion of

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Farm-to-table cooking informs natural colour palette of Maannos restaurant in Helsinki

August 28, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Finnish designer Laura Seppänen applied earthy tones throughout this restaurant in Helsinki to reflect the menu’s focus on locally sourced ingredients. Maannos kitchen and bar – located to the south of the city centre – offers diners a seasonal menu of largely vegetable-based dishes, using produce that has been almost exclusively grown in Finland. When

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Amos Rex’s bulging underground galleries create playful landscape in Helsinki plaza

August 27, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

JKMM Architects designed a series of domed subterranean galleries for the soon-to-open Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, which bubble up through the ground to create a playful outdoor landscape. The Helsinki-based practice renovated Lasipalatsi, a functionalist 1930s building in the Finnish capital, to provide a new home for the former Amos Anderson Art Museum, now called Amos Rex.

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A Homelike Office Interior Was Designed For This Company In Finland

March 20, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Okko Oinonen   Interior design company dSign Vertti Kivi & Co., have recently completed new offices for Reaktor, a design and technology company based in Helsinki, Finland. The interior designers were tasked with creating an office environment that would make the premises be as comfortable as a home.   Photography by Okko Oinonen The design of […]

A Homelike Office Interior Was Designed For This Company In Finland

March 20, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Okko Oinonen   Interior design company dSign Vertti Kivi & Co., have recently completed new offices for Reaktor, a design and technology company based in Helsinki, Finland. The interior designers were tasked with creating an office environment that would make the premises be as comfortable as a home.   Photography by Okko Oinonen The design of […]

Note Design Studio redesigns historic mid-century restaurant in Helsinki

January 26, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has renovated a 1950s restaurant in Helsinki, combining soft pink tones with a teak-lined scheme that honours the building’s modernist design. Located on the 10th floor of the historic Hotel Palace in the city’s Eteläranta harbour area, the restaurant’s revamped interiors feature teak veneer walls, dark teal carpet and custom-made trolleys inspired

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Note Design Studio redesigns historic mid-century restaurant in Helsinki

January 26, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has renovated a 1950s restaurant in Helsinki, combining soft pink tones with a teak-lined scheme that honours the building’s modernist design. Located on the 10th floor of the historic Hotel Palace in the city’s Eteläranta harbour area, the restaurant’s revamped interiors feature teak veneer walls, dark teal carpet and custom-made trolleys inspired

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Note Design Studio redesigns historic mid-century restaurant in Helsinki

January 26, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has renovated a 1950s restaurant in Helsinki, combining soft pink tones with a teak-lined scheme that honours the building’s modernist design. Located on the 10th floor of the historic Hotel Palace in the city’s Eteläranta harbour area, the restaurant’s revamped interiors feature teak veneer walls, dark teal carpet and custom-made trolleys inspired

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Villa K’s angular concrete volumes provide views of a Finnish forest and the Baltic Sea

January 14, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This house near Helsinki perches on a rocky bluff looking out towards the Baltic Sea and features a cranked form that shelters a decked terrace from the harsh wind. Local studios Mer Architects and Ettala Palomeras Architects collaborated on the design of Villa K, which is located in the Spjutsund area along the coast from

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Casagrande Laboratory designs wooden micro house for city dwellers

October 23, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Finnish architecture firm Casagrande Laboratory designed this self-sufficient prefab house to fit on the footprint of a single car-parking space. On show during last month’s edition of Helsinki Design Week as part of the festival’s HOP City Installations, the Tikku concept house – meaning “stick” in Finnish – was designed as a housing solution for

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