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11.5.2017 OPEN HOUSE HELSINKI 2017 INCLUDES THREE BUILDINGS BY K2S Open House Helsinki allows visitors into places which normally are not available to public. Maunula House, Fazer Visitor Center and Arctia HQ are open for free guided walks on Friday 19.5. and Saturday 20.5. More info: www.openhousehelsinki.fi |
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2.3.2017 FAZER VISITOR CENTER WINS CITY OF VANTAA ARCHITECTURE PRIZE The City of Vantaa Architecture Prize is awarded yearly to local projects which contribute to the realization of quality environment in an exemplary way. |
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15.11.2016 FAZER VISITOR CENTER WINS THE FINNISH STEEL PRIZE 2016 The new Fazer Visitor Center has been awarded with the Finnish Steel Prize 2016. The winner was chosen from nine finalists representing contemporary Finnish steel construction. |
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4.1.2016 LINTULA, SIROLA AND SUMMANEN NOMINATED PROFESSORS All three partners of the K2S Architects were nominated as Professors Adjunct at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture. Kimmo Lintula, Niko Sirola and Mikko Summanen will hold the professorship of Building Technology until the end of 2017. |
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3.9.2015 FAZER VISITOR CENTER GROUNDBREAKING The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fazer visitor center was held today in Vantaa. K2S Architects won the invitational architecture competition to design the visitor center and the new meeting center next to the existing factories in Vaarala. There will be exhibition spaces, a cafe, a factory store, event spaces as well as a green room housing cocoa trees in the visitor center. |
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26.3.2015 K2S MOVES The office moves from the Olympic Stadium since the renovation is about to begin. The new address is Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu 15 A 13, 00260 Helsinki |
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9.12.2014 HELSINKI OLYMPIC STADIUM PLANS UNVEILED The latest plans for the refurbishment and extension of the functionalist landmark Helsinki Olympic stadium have been published. The construction will start in the beginning of 2016 and the stadium will be reopened in 2019. The estimated cost of the project is 209 M€. www.stadion.fi/prostadion |
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24.11.2014 ARCTIA HQ NOMINATED FOR THE MIES VAN DER ROHE 2015 -AWARD The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is one of the most important prizes for architecture within Europe. It is granted every two years to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe. The Prize will be awarded at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona in January 2015. Arctia has previously received Architizer A+Award and RIL-prize. |
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3.11.2014 K2S INTERVIEW IN FORM K2S is interviewed in the latest issue of a Swedish design magazine Form about their influence on Helsinki’s transformation as well as the topics behind their architecture and working methods. |
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10.10.2014 THE BOOK IS OUT! K2S – Beyond wall of sound monography was released last week in Stockholm. The book was published by the Swedish publisher Arvinius+Orfeus Publishing AB. It is the first complete monography of K2S Architects. Essays for the book were written by Toyo Ito, Hans Ibelings and Juhani Pallasmaa. The book is currently on show in the Frankfurt book fair. Click here to get one! |
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5.6.2014 HONORARY MENTION IN POHJOLA-TALO COMPETITION In the entry Pohjola building is developed by introducing a hybrid program which consists of housing, commercial, health, sports and medical services. The building block gets a totally new character when the five new multi-purpose buildings is added. The total area of the project is 135 000 m2. |
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13.5.2014 WIENERBERGER BRICK AWARD 2014 FOR PAASITORNI The Paasitorni hotel and conference center has been awarded the 2014 Wienerberger brick special award. The prize ceremony was held in Vienna last Thursday. The international jury, led by Priztker prize laureate Wang Shu chose the seven winners from more than 300 preselected entries from 26 countries and 50 nominees. |
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6.5.2014 HELSINKI MULTIPURPOSE ARENA & SPORTSHOTEL The preliminary design for a 13 000 seat multipurpose arena and a 240 room hotel were revealed today. The site is located on Mäntymäki in the Helsinki Olympic Park right next to the Olympic stadium. The planning was commissioned by the Helsinki City Planning Department. |
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4.4.2014 K2S WINS 2014 A+AWARD Arctia Headquarters has won the Architizer 2014 A+Award. The floating office building was chosen as A+ Award Popular Choice Winner in the Typology Category: Office Building Low Rise. There were thousands of entries from more than 100 countries. The prize ceremony will be held in New York on May 15th. https://awards.architizer.com |
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21.3.2014 ARCTIA HQ FINALIST FOR A+AWARDS Arctia Headquarters has been selected as a Finalist in the Architizer A+ Awards for the Typology Categories | Office: Office Building Low Rise category. The winner will be chosen on April 1st. https://awards.architizer.com |
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19.3.2014 FIRST PRIZE IN ESPOO K2S teamed up together with Byman & Ruokonen landscape architects to win first prize in a competition in Espoo Finland. The program consists of a kindergarten, community house and a park area. The project is a low carbon footprint pilot project. |
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K2S RECEIVES RIL-PRIZE 2013 Arctia Shipping icebreakers head quarters has received the Finnish Association of Civil Engineers´ RIL-prize 2013. “Arctia Shipping head quarters combines Finnish high quality architecture and ship building engineering in a completely new way.” says the president of Aalto-university Tuula Teeri, who made the final decision. |
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13.11.2013 FIRST PRIZE IN VAASA K2S received first prize in an invited competition for two mixed use city blocks in the center of Vaasa. The 21 000 sqm project consists of five new mixed use buildings and reuse of an old school building. |
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28.10.2013 NEW BOOKS RELEASED Recent projects of K2S are featured in several new books e.g. “Nordic Architects – Ebbs and Flows”, “Wood Architecture Now ! 2”, “Sacred Architecture” and “Hotels 2”. |
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INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2013 FOR HOTEL PAASITORNI The Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture and Design has awarded Hotel Paasitorni in International Architecture Awards 2013. All winners will be premiered at the 14th International Biennal of Architecture in Buenos Aires. The exhibition "The City and the World" will be arranged from September till October 2013. After Buenos Aires the exhibition will travel in Europe, opening in Athens, Greece. |
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FLOATING OFFICE OPENED Ice breaker company´s floating office building was opened this week in Merikasarmi pier Katajanokka. The building has raised great interest worldwide. K2S will continue with future floating projects. |
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ARCTIA HQ TOWED TO KATAJANOKKA Early Monday morning the floating office building was towed to its’ final location in Merikasarmi pier from Arctech STX shipyards in Hernesaari. The building will be finalized before the summer. Click here to see a video clip. |
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THIRD PRIZE IN HÄMEENKYRÖ K2S received third prize in an open competition for Hämeenkyrö ecological elementary school and kindergarten. There were 84 entries in total. |
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MÄNTYMÄKI VISION REVEALED The future development plans for Helsinki Olympic park and Mäntymäki area were published this Thursday. Our vision is to develop the area as the most important center for sports and health in Finland. The area will become the “Silicon valley” of sports in Helsinki. Click here to see the plans. |