An exciting new development is coming to one of the Nordic region’s most up-and-coming small cities as Studio Daniel Libeskind gets set to drop the puck tomorrow on a new ice hockey arena in Tampere, Finland.

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.”

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.

“The Nokia Arena creates a new landmark for the city with an iconic, yet contextual design that evokes the spirit of the Finnish people,” Libeskind said in a statement. “The arena serves as an anchor for the surrounding development and will create a vital connection within the city and the country with its proximity to the railway tracks, which previously separated this neighborhood from the rest of Tampere.”

The rest of the development is also nearing completion, with the first Topaasi tower being completed earlier in the summer, and the casino coming online later this month along with the arena and to be followed shortly thereafter with the second Opaali tower, which will be completed sometime in the next year.