Refurbishment

Name Brewery restaurant Description Renovation and newbuild Client City of Helsinki Year 2013 Size br-m² 1000 In the 1820s, a merchant named Petter Brofelt commissioned the construction of a new stone building on Esplanadi, in the Sarvikuono block (Finnish for rhinoceros). The ground floor housed Brofelt’s shop with private living quarters above it. The building […]

Name VTT Technical Research centre of Finland Ltd, Valimo Description Development and city planning Year 2006 Size br-m² 1 800 The building was designed by Alvar Aalto in 1955 as VTT’s laboratory for mountain engineering. The extension from 1960 is also designed by Aalto, and the 1988 alterations were designed by Alvar Aalto & Co.