Design Competition
An invited design competition was organised by the city of Helsinki to produce a design for this challenging site. ALA was selected as the winner in march 2007.
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After that the winning design has been taken further in collaboration
with the city planners. The regulation plan is be very strict, outlining the size and shape of the housing blocks to exact detail. The architectural details will be developed further when individual building design starts in early 2009, but it is already safe to say that this striking design will be implemented as proposed. This will introduce a whole new typology to the Finnish housing market and create an unique, dense and urban area with a lot of character
- something
there seems to be a big demand for in the heavily standardized housing market.
