Tag: wood

Lastu Education Building has been nominated for the EU Mies Awards 2026. Lastu is a multifunctional education building with a massive timber structure on a forested campus by a lake. Complementing the existing buildings, it forms a central hub for […]

Anssi Lassila is giving a lecture on the Potential of Wooden Structures in Architecture Today in the Timber Architecture Now seminar at Aalto University on May 5, 2025. Timber Architecture Now The seminar focuses on contemporary developments in timber architecture. […]

Koivikko sauna is highlighted in the New York Times Magazine in a feature on Finnish saunas by Michael Snyder with photos by Luana Rigolli. The story was published in the online edition of the magazine on March 4, 2025. A […]

Anssi Lassila is giving a lecture on challenges of wooden construction. The public lecture takes place at Institute of Science Tokyo on November 18, 2024 at 18 local time in Japan. The presentation is organized as a hybrid event. You […]

Lastu, the new education building complementing the STEP Professional Training Center campus in Järvenpää has been selected finalist for the PLAN Award 2024. The Plan Award THE PLAN Award is an international prize that recognizes excellence in architecture, interior design, […]

Two OOPEAA projects have been selected as finalists for the WOOD Award 2024, the Rauhalinna Castle and the Lastu education building. In the project to renovate the Rauhalinna Castle, the old wooden main building from 1900 has been restored and […]

Lastu, the new education building for the STEP Professional Training Center receives a Bronze Prize in the international Design Edecates Awards. The “Design Educates Awards” aim to recognize works that can change our behavior – and thus the world – […]

Lastu,  the new education building for the STEP Professional Training Center campus in Järvenpää is one of the five projects shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2024. The Finlandia Prize for Architecture shortlist is chosen by a pre-selection jury […]

This summer marks the 20 year anniversary of the Kärsämäki Shingle Church. On Sunday, July 28 2024, a festive program will be organized to celebrate the special occasion in Kärsämäki. Completed in 2004, the Kärsämäki Shingle Church was the international […]

Anssi Lassila will be speaking at Carnegie Mellon University on Thursday, February 15, 2024. The Dual Lecture together with Brian MacKay Lyons of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects is part of the Public Program series at the School of Architecture at Carnegie […]

Anssi Lassila is speaking on Scalable Wood Architecture in the annual Bryggman Seminar in Turku on February 2, 2024. Bryggman Seminar 2024 This year, the focus of the annual seminar is modern wood architecture. The day-long program features talks by […]

Anssi Lassila will be speaking at a conference on Sustainable Wood Construction in Berlin on November 21, 2023. The event is an exclusive networking meeting intended for professionals interested in sustainable wood construction. The conference brings together German and Finnish […]

Puukuokka Housing Block is featured as one of the two study cases in a new publication on decarbonized construction by John Wiley & Sons. The book, Carbon: A Field Manual for Designers and Builders is authored by Kuittinen, Organschi and Ruff. […]

Anssi Lassila is speaking at the Wood Camp Live 2023 conference on new developments in wood construction on November 15, 2023. This is the second year of the conference that brings together a wide range of practitioners engaged in research, […]

Anssi Lassila will be speaking at the Puupäivä, Wood Day, on November 2, 2023. The annual Wood Day conference addresses topical issues in the field of wood construction. The goal of the event is to foster dialogue to deepen awareness […]

Today we celebrate the inauguration of the new Campus House for the STEP Professional Training Center in Järvenpää. We are excited to see the building now ready to welcome its new users. We extend our thanks to the commissioning client, […]

The restoration and renovation of the Rauhalinna Castle, a landmark for historic preservation has been selected finalist for the PLAN Award 2023 in the category of Renovation, Completed Projects. The PLAN Award – An International Platform for Discussion THE PLAN […]

Anssi Lassila is taking part in a session on the Sustainable Future of Mass Timber Architecture at the UIA World Congress in 2023 in Copenhagen on July 5. Rethinking Resources The panel on the Sustainable Future of Mass Timber is […]

Last week we celebrated the topping out of the Järvenpää Professional Training Center Campus House. 

Puukuokka is a wooden housing block in the Kuokkala neighborhood in Jyväskylä
The image shows a view of the block in its surroundings. The wooden block is designed to take its place in the city and in the landscape. It mediates between the city and the surrounding natural landscape.

Housing all functions under one roof, the building of Konsthall Tornedalen is divided into three distinct zones according to use: galleries for exhibiting art, public spaces and a restaurant for people to come together in, and supportive spaces for the staff to work in.

The performance stage of the Kontra pavilion in the heart of Seinäjoki will be inaugurated this weekend with a full day of programming on Saturday.

The Tikkurila Church and Housing is featured in the June 2021 issue of the Finnish Architectural Review dedicated to theme of Sacred Space.  The Tikkurila Church, the Bethania Apartments, and the HOAS student housing form one unity with a diversity of functions serving the residents […]

The Stockholm City Planning Office has granted a building permit for Hamnbad Stockholm, a floating structure with public space, spas, saunas and pools to be built in Munkbrohamnen in Riddarfjärden in downtown Stockholm. The architecture of the project is based […]