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2024-05-20T06:17:41-04:00
https://archinect.com/news/article/150291075/studio-libeskind-s-nokia-arena-takes-center-ice-in-finland
Studio Libeskind’s Nokia Arena takes center ice in Finland
Josh Niland
2021-12-16T13:13:00-05:00
>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5b/5b983bbdc886e06a9e565c1f2cb14530.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>An exciting new development is coming to one of the Nordic region’s most up-and-coming small cities as <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/1493/studio-daniel-libeskind" target="_blank">Studio Daniel Libeskind</a> gets set to drop the puck tomorrow on a new ice hockey arena in Tampere, Finland.</p>
<p>Located along the intersection of a downtown railway axis, the mixed-use development also features hotel accommodations along with five residential towers meant to activate a downtown core that the firm characterizes as “the epitome of a thriving European City.”</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1d/1d57da2aa379a9202d7debd07a7de950.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1d/1d57da2aa379a9202d7debd07a7de950.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo © Hufton+Crow</figcaption></figure><p>The 17,000-seat arena includes a casino and restaurant topped off by the hotel area and three luxurious rooftop saunas. Its curvilinear envelope suggests the speed and exhilaration of an attacking hockey forward on the power play, with variable cladding that breaks up the mass perfectly, culminating in a glass facade at ground level to meet both visitors and the city in the center of a well-organized urban scale development.<br></p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ff/fffc7d3a13a9ba6b8ad83426618c9262.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ff/fffc7d3a13a9ba6b8ad83426618c9262.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo © Hufton+Crow</figcaption></figure><p>“The Nokia Arena creates a new landmark for the city with ...</p>