Archinect - News 2024-12-23T22:09:49-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/52835566/helsinki-landmark-building-fokka-by-arto-ollila Helsinki Landmark Building, “Fokka” by Arto Ollila Alexander Walter 2012-07-02T15:54:00-04:00 >2012-07-03T03:02:46-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/do/dobxop031wx0yzxd.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The concept "Fokka," by Finnish architecture student Arto Ollila at Helsinki's Aalto University, is the winning concept in a student design competition held in 2011 among all architecture schools in Finland. The task was to design a new landmark building in the Koivusaari area, the most western part of Helsinki, using new and innovative steel structures. Koivusaari is one of the new areas currently under development in Helsinki, the World Design Capital 2012.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>