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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 […]

OOPEAA’s Periscope Tower is one of the winners of the Japanese award SD Review 2015. The Periscope Tower project will be exhibited together with the other winners in Tokyo and Kyoto. The design for a new viewing tower, the Periscope […]

OOPEAA is glad to announce that Puukuokka Housing Block is shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2015. The Finlandia Prize for Architecture was established in 2011 by SAFA, the Finnish Association of Architects. The Finlandia Prize for Architecture is […]

You´re all welcome to take part in the next Alvar Aalto Symposium 2015, which will take place in Jyväskylä, 7.-9. August, 2015. – Alvar Aalto Symposium is an international forum for discussion on contemporary architecture. It is a triennial event […]

RE-CREATION. THE RESILIENCE OF ARCHITECTURE June 11 – September 13, 2015 This summer Helsinki’s Esplanade Park will play host to Re-Creation. The Resilience of Architecture, an installation by Anssi Lassila and his OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture which debuted at the […]

Milan, Italy is the location of Forum Perspective 2015 by The Plan on May 18-20, and OOPEAA is part of it. Started in 2010 under the curatorial organization of the Plan Magazine, the Forum is an annual event for networking […]

The 56th La Biennale di Venezia 2015 opens its doors to the public on 9th May. OOPEAA has created the exhibition design for the presentation of the exhibition “Hours, Years, Aeons” by the artist duo IC-98 in the Alvar Aalto Pavilion of […]

Tomorrow, 28.04 at 18.00, Anssi Lassila is presenting some of the latest projects by OOPEAA at MFA – Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki, together with Avanto Arkkitehdit and Rudanko+Kankkunen.

The OOPEAA Seinäjoki office has moved. The Seinäjoki office has moved to Frami D, an office building designed by OOPEAA in 2007. It is a hub for innovative companies, start-ups and technology education. The site is well situated in Seinäjoki […]

OOPEAA is glad to announce that Puukuokka Housing Block project is shortlisted within the finalists for The Plan Awards 2015, in the Housing category. You can check the full list of shortlisted projects here: http://awards.theplan.it/index.php/shortlisted/shortlist

The first building in the Puukuokka Housing Block was just recently completed. Puukuokka is the first eight-story high wooden apartment building in Finland. Developed in collaboration with Lakea, it is an energy-efficient trio of multi-story wood-framed flats in the Jyväskylä […]

Suomi Seven exhibition now comes to Helsinki at the Museum of Finnish Architecture! Exhibition opens on Monday, 23. March and ends on 5. May. Welcome!

Today, Thursday 19th February, at Aalto University, Department of Architecture in Helsinki Anssi Lassila will hold a public lecture. OOPEAA office, background and projects will be presented at 15.15 in room H103. The lecture will be in English.  

The OOPEAA team is thrilled to be working on a new project for a public sauna to be located on the small Lonna island, between the “Kauppatori” Market Square in the heart of downtown Helsinki and the Suomenlinna fortress, one of […]

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2015 from the OOPEAA team! See you next year with more and new works!

OOPEAA is happy to announce that the first block of the Puukuokka Housing complex is ready! This week the residents will start moving in into their brand new apartments.

We are proud to announce that House Riihi by OOPEAA was shortlisted as nominee in the WoodPrize / Puupalkinto 2014, organized by Woodinfo / Puuinfo Finland since 1994. The prize will be assigned today, 27th November, during the happenings of Puupäivä, the Finnish “day […]

We are happy to announce that House Riihi has been nominated amongst the projects for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. Launched in 1987, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – […]

Today at 18.00 in Centre Pompidou – Paris Anssi Lassila will be part of the event “Les Conversations – Build Beyond”, within the research program “Build Beyond by Knauf”.

In the Jyväskylä suburb of Kuokkala, the first part of the Puukuokka Housing Block is nearing completion. Puukuokka 1, the first part of a complex to be composed of three wooden multi-story apartment buildings, is expected to be completed by […]

In 2012 OOPEAA, operating under the name Lassila Hirvilammi Architects at the time, won the competition for a new art museum in Vitsaniemi in the Swedish Lapland. The Konsthall Tornedalen will be located on the beautiful banks of the river Kemijoki that marks […]