How can a work trip be such fun? Behind is an 80-kilometre skating tour in the Linnansaari National Park in the spring sun, in the shadows of Saimaa shores without summer huts. Sweet dreams in a just-completed log hotel, delicious foods from a mediaeval banquet. Creative and intensive lengthy discussions of the last moment at […]
It is a pleasure to participate in a project which employs at least seven skilled artists for a while. At the Lappeenranta Hospital, the Eksote, the project has been prepared for a long time and with merit, acquiring financing and sympathy for the matter. We, the designers of the public spaces of the future hospital, […]
The past September was a month of openings for Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd. As many completed projects seldom fall on the same month, as many architectural projects last months or even years. At midmonth we celebrated the renovated cinema Maxim of Savon Kinot Oy and right after that the opening of the new Kaarisairaala (Arch […]
A residence for the child or the grandmother, a sauna with a spa compartment, a warehouse, an atelier, a workshop, a gym, a guest room, a rental flat… Situations in life change and needs along with them. A modular and aesthetic building in the compound is the answer to the changing challenges of everyday life, […]
Bio Rex Cinemas modernises and extends cinema Maxim in Rovaniemi in co-operation with Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd. Cinema Maxim is over 25 years old, and it has come to end of the road in its present form. The technical requirements of a cinema and the expansion of the repertory along with digitalisation have changed the […]
Winds of change blow in cinema Maxim which has operated in Varkaus since 1986. Maxim, owned by Savon Kinot Ltd, an eastern Finnish family business, is closed for renovation, and the playhouse will be reopened for cinephiles in July with a wholly new appearance. The visual appearance designed by Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd radiates ambiance […]
”Architecture is the greatest and most expensive of art forms, and it permanently shapes the living environment of us all. Finland is concentrating into cities and is building a lot now. Architects are at a vantage point in the change, and they traces in the landscape also internationally. ”Build Me” is a ten-part series on […]
RIISA will open to the public, opening at the same the new basic exhibition ”On the stairs of sanctity”, to be blessed and inaugurated by Athenagoras, metropolitan of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg. In this momentous event a long common project will have the festive occasion it deserves. Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd has participated in […]
After a long process, the council of the South Karelia Social and Health Care District (Eksote) decided in its meeting on 12/2/2015 to approve the proposal of its administrative board, a plan for a new emergency and inpatient ward building, adjoining the Eksote Central Hospital. The building project is due to be implemented during the years […]
Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd has designed the new log-structure day-care centre in the local district of Hiironen, Oulu. In the design of the day-care centre, attention has been paid to the surrounding nature, natural light and a pleasant acoustic environment. In the architecture, large building masses are divided, together with outbuildings and playhouses, into smaller […]