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The Periscope Tower is a giant wooden periscope structure that serves as an observation tower and engages the viewer in a dialogue with the landscape. With the help of a large mirror the Periscope Tower makes it possible for everyone […]

OOPEAA’s proposal “Karlsson” wins the invited architecture competition for designing a 4-6 storey apartment building in Jätkäsaari to form a part of the larger entity of block 20828. The competition was organized by Lakea in collaboration with the City Planning […]

Biennial Review 2016 exhibition opening at the Museum of Finnish Architecture on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 The Biennial Review of Finnish Architecture for 2016 presents 15 jury-selected projects completed between July 2013 and June 2015. Puukuokka is one of the three […]

Construction of the six-storey wooden apartment building in Penttilä, Joensuu is starting today.  The building is the first multi-storey wooden apartment building in Joensuu. It has been commissioned by the Joensuun Pihapetäjä Housing Cooperative owned by the Karelian Culture Promotion […]

VISION: Future of the Built Environment Olympia Central Hammersmith Road London, W14 8UX June 7-8, 2016   VISION focuses on innovative building products, materials and technology and provides ideas for new and inventive ways to achieve better building design. VISION […]

Venice, Lido Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Society: Creating a More Friendly Built Environment Anssi Lassila will be lecturing at the Perspective 2016 Forum organized by Plan on Lido in Venice  In this lecture Anssi Lassila will focus on presenting some of […]

BA16‐ Big Architecture 16 At the Slovenian Design Center In Ljubljana At 3 pm on Thursday, April 21, 2016 Pushing the Boundaries of Wood Each year (since 2008) organizer Zavod Big hosts an architecture conference that aims to bring together […]

Anssi Lassila will give a talk at Aalto University in Helsinki today at 14.00. The event is part of the Contemporary Finnish Architecture course.

Anssi Lassila, OOPEAA 57°10 Lecture Series Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Scotland March 24, 2016 at 17.00  Anssi Lassila of OOPEAA will give a talk in the 57°10 architecture lecture series at the Scott Sutherland School […]

Four projects by OOPEAA have been selected to be presented in the exhibition “In Therapy” in the Nordic Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2016. Puukuokka will be featured as one of the nine projects to be highlighted as […]

The countdown clock for the Lahti World Championships in Nordic Skiing in 2017 was officially started on February 19, 2016. The countdown clock for the Lahti World Championships in Nordic Skiing has been designed by Anssi Lassila / OOPEAA. The clock […]

Puukuokka by OOPEAA has been chosen as one of the nine highlighted projects to represent Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish architecture at the Venice Biennale in 2016. David Basulto, curator of In Therapy: Nordic Countries Face to Face – the exhibition […]

We are excited to announce  that Puukuokka Housing Block is one of the five finalists in housing category for the ArchDaily Building of the Year Award 2016! Puukuokka was selected from over 3 000 projects. Over 18,000 architects and enthusiasts participated in […]

On February 4th, 2016 at 10.35  Anssi Lassila will give a lecture at the „SUPERWOOD” congress at Architekturforum DACH+HOLZ INTERNATIONAL 2016 Stuttgart, Germany. In this talk Anssi Lassila will focus on presenting the Puukuokka Apartment Block as an example of housing in wood on a large scale. He will […]

The Awards Showcase Leadership in Architecture and Design The Wood Design & Building magazine, in partnership with the Canadian Wood Council, has announced the award recipients for the 2015/16 Wood Design Awards program. Winning recipients were selected from over 140 […]

On January 12, 2016 at 6 pm Anssi Lassila will give a lecture at the Boston Architectural College, Cascieri Hall. The title of the lecture is “Of Things  Small and Large”. In this talk Anssi Lassila will address the question […]

Today, 7th of January, Anssi Lassila will hold a lecture about Puukuokka in Trondheim, Norway. The lecture is part of a course organized by Tekna. Find more info and full program here

The Puukuokka Housing Block designed by Anssi Lassila / OOPEAA has been selected winner of the Wood Prize  2015. The Wood Prize is awarded annually as a sign of recognition to a building, interior or structure that represents Finnish wood […]

Anssi Lassila is giving a lecture tomorrow on November 26th, 2015 in Helsinki. The event is part of Puupäivä (Wood Day) organized by Puuinfo Oy / the Wood Information Center Finland. Puupäivä brings together hundreds of industry, commerce and local government […]

The OOPEAA Helsinki office has moved to Töölö. The new office is located along the lively Hesperia esplanade just a few blocks away from the central Railway Station and right next to the Töölönlahti Bay park in the very center […]

November 14, 2015 Anssi Lassila, OOPEAA receives the Resident Act of the Year 2015 (Vuoden Asukastoimija) award in recognition for his work on extending the scale of the design for wooden housing onto the level of multistory apartment buildings with […]

November 19, 2015 at 18.00, Blue Box On November 11, 2015 Anssi Lassila will give a talk at the Bochum University of Applied Sciences. The event is part of the annual lecture series organized by the Department of Architecture at the […]

Sherin Wing’s new book Designing Sacred Spaces is now released on Amazon, find the book in HERE.  OOPEAA is featured as one of seven architecture offices whose designs for sacred spaces are presented in the book. The Kärsämäki Shingle Church, […]

We are proud to announce that the Puukuokka Housing Block designed by OOPEAA has been selected winner of the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2015. This year composer Kaija Saariaho has acted as the judge to select the winner from among five […]