Celebrating the new look of the Kuopio Airport

The greater part of the interior of the terminal has now been renovated with fresh and modern decorative solutions. ”We want passengers to feel comfortable and to get tuned into a travel mood already at the airport. We believe that the new look just completed lifts the service experience and comfort to an even higher […]

STAR GUEST Kirsi Pitkänen: Art to the Hospital seminar

The seminar will present the possibilities of the percent principle in a built environment, focussing particularly on integrated artworks and their possibilities. At best, the artist works as an expert and team member in building projects, in co-operation with the architect, the developer, the interior designer and other experts. The purpose of the seminar is […]

PEKO1 and Nucleus lobbies

An extensive renovation project called ”PEKO1” is starting at the Puijo hospital of the Kuopio University Hospital. Surgical and other facilities will be renovated into the state of the art in the old reinforce concrete building frame to be mainly preserved. At the same time, we designers have had the opportunity to make the common […]

Pa-La expands

The assignment to us of a new hospital project, the Lappeenranta Central Hospital of the South Karelia Social and Health Care District (Eksote), gave momentum to our long-time dreams. Our office spaces will be expanded by almost a half, thanks to the pilot building we planned for Honkarakenne. The building has been designed as a […]

STAR GUEST Päivi Pitkäniitty: Evolution – from print file to glass and the wall of the Kuopio University Hospital

476 image files and approximately 1500 m2 of glass go through many machines and pairs of hands in the factory. The process starts on the image processor’s table. The image files over a metre wide and nearly three metres long are converted by digital colour separation into the colour space of our ceramic colours. In […]

STAR GUEST Markus Heiskanen: An unparalleled lakeside spa being built at the gate of the Linnasaari National Park

Holiday centre Järvisydän at Rantasalmi has commenced and important investment programme, comprising the Elämyshotelli (Hotel Experience) and lake spa DaySpa. The total cost of the project is seven million euros. Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd have been selected as the designers of DaySpa. They have implemented with merit a unique spa plan with a holistic experience, […]

Lake theme at the Kuopio airport

As an airplane lands at the Kuopio airport, a magnificent lake scene filled with islands extends in all directions. The renewal of the appearance of the airport continues this theme. There are pier benches in the reeds for waiting for the departure, rock-like, but soft couches help create unexpected encounters, in line with Kuopio’s new […]

Smell of paint and cotton dust before Riisa

Conservators’ white gloves don’t belong here yet. Jewels, gold, beautifully embroidered fragile old textiles, all those thousands of treasures have been stored elsewhere. Fortunately, because here sing the sledgehammer, drill, hammer and saw. There is still plenty of dust in the air. The Orthodox Church Museum site is in full swing. Openings have been enlarged, […]

The topping-out party of building 2 of the KUH was celebrated with the builders, guests and Kristina Brask

As behoves the ritual, there was pea soup, mustard and beer on offer, this time served by Servica, of course. The working men, speakers, designers and developers shared the tables in festive spirits in the still unfinished high and bright light lobby of the top-notch hospital, soon to be full of hotter-than-hot operations. The organic […]

Insights at the architects’ conference in Lahti and in the corridors of the Kuopio University Hospital

The Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) asked Jaana and me to talk at the architects’ conference held at the Sibelius House in Lahti on the subject Everyday insights. As Jaana happened to have a press conference on the Matrix exhibition at the Salo Art Museum at the same time, I was obliged to manage this […]