| 11/2006 | |
| More news in November: Anteeksi organized 4th Fäsäri, this time on ice. Tuomas made these "Taloset", a moving neighborhood. Check here for more pictures. |  |
| While
Tuomas was skating, Johanna
was setting up temporary office in Sunu Kër, Senegal for four weeks.
More info here. |
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| Hello!
Scroll down for some excuses for not updating for a loong time but first
read this: We have opened up M41LH2 / Central Europe -office in Zürich. Since Tommi is spending a big share of his time in Zürich due to teaching at the ETHZ, we have decided to establish a partner office there to be able to work geographically closer to projects in Central Europe. Architect-urbanist Mirjam Niemeyer is joining forces with us in this operation – welcome Mirjam! In 2007 we continue to operate this way, working both individually and as a whole group. |
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| To
start with there are two projects under work already in the Zürich
office: a site development project in the historical center of Grevenbroich,
Germany. The project is in a very early stage of defining the interests
of the main stakeholders and studying possible future scenarios. Another one is a domestic stadiumlamp called 'Letzi-lampe' on which Tommi is collaborating with his colleague Thomas Kovari from ETH. The first prototype was already successfully exhibited in April in the 'Trend Boulevard'-happening in Zürich . |
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Tuomas spent the autumn on academic work. He was working on his thesis
project (picture), tutored by Antti-Matti
Siikala, during autumn and graduated finally, so now the whole partner
team of M41LH2 are qualified
architects. |
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| Tuomas
and Johanna submitted an entry with architect Henrik Ahola (sleeping in
Skogskyrkogården) for the Asplund
library competition. Johannas Lightcarpet keeps on getting interest, it has been published by VVORK and MocoLoco for example, and exhibited in Norway. Also Johannas design for Kuurna was noticed in Food&Wine. She has also been involved in art projects, in Arabianranta and for landscape architect Gretel Hemgård. |
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| Tommi
on our Pori house building site in August. |
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| He
also wrote some articles: 'No Slush' looks at the development potentials of center of Helsinki and it was published in 'Monu - Magazine on urbanism'. The magazine is new on the field and fresh. Helsinki Design Week asked Tommi to write about cities and creativity. The provocative article 'City as a loft with safe insecurity' is somehow tackling the given topic. |
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And
now the excuses_a belated report May to August 2006: |
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| 4/2006 | |
| Cool:
Johanna´s
Lightcarpet was spotted by Coolhunter. School: Richmond workshop was super! Press: Helsingin Sanomat published an article about a media centre we have been designing (check Projects -> m-cult). Viisi Tähteä magazine interviewed us about interiors. Work: We got nice pictures of new projects Bali and Purple, we will put these up soon! |
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| 1–3/2006 | |
| Huh!
We finally had the time to rebuild our site. We have added most of the
projects we did in 2004-2005 on the site and will keep on adding new ones. Latest news workwise: club "BALI" we designed for Silja Line ship running between Helsinki and Stockholm was built and we are happy about it. Here are some pictures, we will get better ones soon. Right now we are working on a jewellery shop in Helsinki and have been pitching for a couple of other things. |
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| Lots
of travelling in March: Tuomas will be giving a lecture
in a series called "Objects and Methods"and a workshop in VCU
in Richmond, Virginia, USA on March 6th. Come to see it if you are around!
Johanna will be travelling to Senegal and Benin in March to do a urban
project in Dakar. Later in spring we have been invited with Anteeksi to participate in couple of exhibitions, for example REMIX in Fiskars in the summer of 2006. |
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| Tommi
is currently spending a lot of time in Switzerland to work at ETH
Zürich as Assistant Professor for Kees Christiaanse in the Institute for Urban Design. He also continues with his PhD-research on the concept of 'Urban Design Management', which is due 2007. Tommi's PhD forms an essential part of a larger research project called Decomb - Design Concepts and Management of Built Environment. The first Urban Design Management seminar 'Scope 2005' held in Helsinki just before Christmas proved to be a success! |
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| 8/2005 | |
| Hello!
We got back from summer vacation, and finished our proposal for an invited competition on prefab house kit by Ruukki, competing with ALA, Claesson-Koivisto-Rune, Koko3, Huttunen-Pakkanen-Lipasti and Plot. Still working on the big update on this site! If you need more specific info on our recent projects at the moment please mail info@M41LH2.com |
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| This house on the right is almost finished in Pori, but it will not be clad until next summer. Scroll down for earlier model photos to see how it will look like. |  |
| The
cultural center M41LH2 / Johanna Hyrkäs designed for Villa Karo in
Benin has been in active use after its completion this year, up to 5000
people have showed in the events. Here are some pictures by Lauri Nykopp: One of the courtyards at night... |
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...and local musicians, Alfas group rehearsing on the other courtyard. . |
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| In
May we visited New York with Anteeksi,
and were happy to notice that Icon-magazine
had chosen our booth as their favorite in the ICFF! Nice! And a nice trip as a whole too, greetings to all the people we met. |
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| In
New York we also said bye-bye to our long time partner Tuomas, who left
to start his own office with his wife, Nene Tsuboi. Good luck! |
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| 1–2/2005 | |
| Happy
new year! Some spring projects in M41LH2 include: exhibition design for
centennial exhibition of Helkama companies and another for UIAH, shop
design, couple of competitions + invitation as part of Anteeksi to show
at ICFF in New York
in May by Metropolis
-magazine. Houses: eagerly awaiting to see the one being constructed in Pori finished; another project is Johannas steel-framed vertical one-family houses, supported by Rautaruukki, on the right. |
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| We were thinking about making more changes on our site but due to lack of time we postponed them a bit. Here is a new picture from Villa Karo cultural center in Benin, this is one of the projects we will add when we get the update done later this spring. |  |
| 12/2004 | |
| Lot
of things: First our team from Anteeksi
was awarded Golden Blickfang Preis in Zürich, check Neue Zürcher
Zeitung in german here.
Sehr schön! Then Tuomas S. got Grafia pro gradu -prize for his thesis Helsinki®? for UIAH. In this picture Tuomas is trying to explain it. Then current muoto -magazine includes our visions for the future of Helsinki.. And we are working for example a store concept in Moscow. |
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| 11/2004 | |
| Second
Anteeksi fashion show was a success, somebody counted 200 guests. Thanks
for coming! We were also invited to show on Blickfang
in Zurich among other young finnish designers, you can find us there 19.11.-21.11.
in the Helsinki corner. Some appearances by M41LH2 in November: Tuomas T. will host Innovative City -seminar on 16.11., Tuomas S. was invited to speak at Armi-päivät on 26.11. |
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| 10/2004 | |
| The
october update is a little late... sorry. Some proposals are keeping us busy. We were happily surprised when we received this book by Ana G. Canizares, as they had chosen our project for the cover. We try to add some new completed projects in the project chart on this site later this months as there has not been any additions for some time and in the meanwhile some stuff has been completed. |
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| In
case somebody did not notice 4th of October was the official "World
Architecture day". To celebrate this Finnish Association of Architects
organized an evening where young firms could present their work. We were presenting our stuff along K2S, o+o architects, Jenni Reuter, Kristina Karlsson, Avanto and ALA. |
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| 09/2004 | |
| Tommi represented Finland among 22 people who took part in masterclass "Science Park Amsterdam" for young Western-European architects in Berlage Institute in Rotterdam in the end of August. The workshop proved to be very good one. |  |
| In
the meanwhile rest of M41LH2 except TT who was playing with his
band was with amppa
and neski at Alvar
Aalto design seminar "Choices". It was very inspiring to
hear the lectures by for example Matali
Crasset, Jasper
Morrison and Inaki
Abalos. And then we went with a boat to take a sauna here. |
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| Luckily
there are also things happening workwise, our first private house is under
construction on this site (scroll down for earlier model photos). Other projects now active include a pitch for an upcoming exhibition and concept development for Silja Line. |
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| 07-08/2004 | |
M41LH2
took some holidays in July: Tommi went walking in Spain, Tuomas sailing
in Åland, Johanna surfing in Biarritz and Tuomas T. dancing and
singing in Saarijarvi.. |
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| On
a different scale: Tommi was the concept consultant for our Anteeksi
friend Antti Lassila on a competition entry for a
cultural multiplex, containing two museums, a hotel and a dancehall.
The entry was awarded a purchase. Congratulations! M41LH2 work can be seen this month in two magazines: Wallpaper and Cubes. And in a new book by LOFT publications. We are very happy about this interest. Thanks! Too bad, this project on the right was canceled -> |
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| 06/2004 | |
POL
Oxygen from Australia publishes our work in their recent issue.
Maja magazine
from Estonia has a theme number about finnish architecture with writings
by Tuomas and Tommi. |
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| 04-05/2004 | |
| Sorry
no update in April... Thanks and greetings to everybody who sent in applications
for work/internship, we really appreciate your interest! M41LH2 at the moment: Working on a scheme of converting an 19th century building into a cultural centre containing for example multipurpose gallery/exhibition/club/performance spaces... |
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| ... small summer retreat (by tommi)... |  |
| ...an exhibition coming up in 2005... |  |
...and
public housing. And besides these anteeksi.org
has been launched and will continue to evolve very soon.
This is a site dedicated to all the common projects done by Anteeksi, our collective. Check it out. And keep your eye on international publications, our work will be featured in couple of magazines in June, more about that later! |
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| 03/2004 | |
| Still
working on the design for this house. Wow! We noticed that there was a nice mention of us in this interview, where Robert Thiemann says: "In interior architecture, I think young architects such as Fabio Novembre (Italy), David Adjaye (England), M41LH2 (Finland), Francesc Pons (Spain), Concrete (the Netherlands), Matali Crasset (France) and Jurgen Bey (the Netherlands) are creating very interesting work. " |
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| Darren, our trainee, made a model and these renderings of the house. |  |
| Another project at M41LH2 now is a showroom/exhibition space design for 3M, here are some sketches. |  |
Watch this space... M41LH2 coming up with something -> |
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| 02/2004 | |
| Some
photos of our latest projects: New exhibition building to cultural centre Villa Karo is almost finished finally. This building is an addition to a finnish cultural centre operating in Benin, West Africa. The new building houses exhibition and working spaces for visiting artists and acts as a link between the cultural centre and the local community. |
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| The outer walls are made of colored concrete, an experiment with sculptor Pertti Kukkonen. |  |
| The
building has a low horizontal exhibition space framing the courtyard with
the old buildings. Towards the sea there are two courtyards with different
proportions and color schemes, intended for different kinds of use. The colors in this picture are still unfinished. |
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| This
is Syöpä Nyt -exhibition in Design Museum. Syöpä
Nyt is a non-profit work for the finnish cancer foundation. |
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| Cardboard was the material of choice for this project. We have also designed the stands on which the products are on display in stores now. |
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| 01/2004 | |
M41LH2
involved in a couple of exhibitions: |
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| This
one is exhibition architecture for an upcoming exhibition in Museum of
Technology. Still not too late to get a copy of Frame or Arkkitehti, the latest issues feature projects by us... We have a trainee: Darren from Ireland is working in M41LH2 now. Happy New Year! |
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| 12/2003 | |
| Our
collective Anteeksi organized a succesful fashion night! Thanks to all
the guests and models. Anteeksi.org site with pictures coming up sometime soon... In the meanwhile check out com-pa-nys site for pictures. |
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| This is a project from 2002 called Kontupiste, we finally managed to get some pictures. Kontupiste is a community space in suburb of Helsinki called Kontula. Various activities are organized: people can bring their photoalbums to be scanned and added to a picture database of the suburb. The space also provides computers and courses on radio and video, plus a studio for making local programmes. Interior, designed by M41LH2/Tuomas T. was just a part in this EU-funded project in the URBAN-program. |  |
| We have continued to develop the design for this house project. The construction work will start in spring 2004. At the moment we are working on the materials. |  |
| Two
projects by us were published in this book by Alejandro Bahamon.. Take a look at it in Amazon for example. |
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| 11/2003 | |
| We
got very positive publicity this month: +81 had a feature on Anteeksi (our space/collective with com-pa-ny and 8 other designers) in their Holland-Finland -special, vol. 22. Helsinki Club was published in Frame, issue 35. |
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| MSN
Italy featured nunu. We also were happy to notice that nunu had been
chosen by Luksus for their
list. We have made further model studies for a private house, which is going to be built on the west coast (of Finland). Besides this we are working on an another house and an exhibition. |
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| A
suburban amoeba -project was made for Japanese TV. Also anxiously awaiting the completion of Villa Karo Cultural Centre in Benin. The inauguration seremony takes place in the end of the month. |
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| Tuomas
S. finalized his MA-thesis for the department of visual culture at Helsinki
University of Art and Design. "The project... is about mapping the invisible forcefields operating in and shaping the cityscape of Helsinki ...keywords include soft cities, city branding and ways of seeing." |
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Tommi gave a lecture at Helsinki University of Technology and Tuomas T. and Tommi were presenting at Tallinn Bipolarcities -seminar, which was about "a meeting with Finnish and Estonian young generation architects and urban spirited minds to discuss about mutual interests in the changing circumstances of Tallinn, Helsinki and the future Europe." |
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| The finnish edition of Game On -exhibition, designed by M41LH2/Tuomas T. with Antti Lassila, is showing until December in Helsinki City Art Museum. Mario courtesy of Nintendo Inc. |  |
| 10/2003 | |
| Some
preliminary model studies for a house in the archipelago. At this point of the project we are working with the client to find the right relationship between the private and public parts of the interior and the site. |
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| 09/2003 | |
| We
went to see a site for a house in the archipelago. It was stunningly beautiful. Johanna traveled to Benin to take a look at the materials and finishes at Villa Karo (see photo below). |
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| Tommi´s
thesis project "Helsinki +22 C - no slush", a study about the
public space network under Helsinki takes part in "Uusi
Helsinki?" -exhibition in Museum
of Finnish Architecture. The exhibition got a positive review in Helsingin
Sanomat. We will add that work and other research projects on this site sometime soon. |
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| 08/2003 | |
| Villa
Karo exhibition building, building site in Grand Popo, Benin. The new
building (in the background) will open in October 2003. Designed by M41LH2 / Johanna Hyrkäs with input by sculptor Pertti Kukkonen. |
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| 06-07/2003 | |
New
stuff in the project chart: |
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| 05/2003 | |
| Working
on exhibition
architecture for finnish edition of Game
On for Helsinki
City Art Museum, opening in September. Nice! Stylepark -project that Tuomas S. was working on while in MetaDesign featured in a brand new book "Graphic Design for the 21st Century" by Taschen. So nice! 1st of May party at Anteeksi to celebrate the first year of Anteeksi Studios. |
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| 04/2003 | |
| New
stuff for MPHIS, furniture flower patterns for summer 2003. Tuomasx2 and Johanna were checking out stuff in Milan Furniture Fair. Greetings to our Finnish friends in saunabus and imu for fresh projects! Now in process in M41LH2: • movie posters for Screenday Films • exhibition for 3M • identity project for Manifesto Consulting |
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| Take part in our HEL? -exhibition discussion. In Finnish, but dont hesitate to comment in English. The exhibition itself tries to bring up fresh views and attitudes on the key issues of urban design in Helsinki right now and stir up some conversation. Four projects are featured for starting points of discussion: Helsinki +22 C - ei loskaa by Tommi Mäkynen, Aula -project by Tuomas Toivonen, proposition for the new central library by Antti Lassila and study about process city by Hanna Harris. |  |
| Cultural Centre Villa Karo in Grand Popo in Benin finally got the necessary funding for its new building of exhibition and performance spaces, designed by Johanna Hyrkäs. The construction has begun this week, due for completion by the end of the summer. |  |
| Still
in the process of adding these projects to our project database, all of
them completed this past spring: • Helsinki Club, a 600 m2 nightclub in Helsinki. Masterplan and concept by M41LH2, design carried out by Anteeksi Allstars Team: M41LH2, com-pa-ny, Oiva, Anttinen and Kivinen. |
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| •
nunu, a 400 m2 nightclub in Jyvaskyla. Concept, interior design, visual
identity and website by M41LH2/Tommi Mäkynen and Tuomas Siitonen
with Katriina Lankinen and Salla Eskola • kontu.la, a 80 m2 community space for Kontula, a suburb of Helsinki. Concept by Aula/Roosa and Tuomas Toivonen, design by M41LH2/Tuomas Toivonen. |
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| 03/2003 | |
| Sneak
preview, the dome of Helsinki Club on the right. Hel? -exhibition in Profounders 3.4.–3.5! |
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| 14.03.2003:
We had the honor of redesigning the legendary Helsinki Club, which was re-opened today. For the project an Anteeksi Allstars Team was assembled. Here is a pic from the site, featuring our friends from com-pa-ny in the lounge space of the club. More about the whole project soon! |
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| Moi,
we got superb nunu-pictures
by photographer Matti
Pyykkö, will add these shortly... Upcoming events: an exhibition in the Profounders gallery later this month. |
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| 02/2003 | |
| Soon
(?) to come: M41LH2 research section. We have been involved in research
projects in the past few years covering subjects like new media, communities,
new commercial spaces and branded space. Working on it now, coming up
later this spring... New projects are under construction now or just finished, we will add stuff in the project chart soon (?) too! Check back. |
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| 01/2003 | |
| Happy
new year... sorrry for lazy updates. We have been extremely busy, working
on for example: nunu, a club. We were involved in the whole process of creating the concept for the club and the application of it including the interior design, visual identity and communication material, marketing strategy and the web-site. More images soon. M41 research project: Takku, the underworld of Helsinki. Helsinki Club, M41LH2 with Anteeksi Allstars. Villa Karo extension construction starting in Benin, Johanna supervising the site! |
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| 12/2002 | |
| Kontupiste
open and in operation on the right! The club projects moving into construction,
due to open in feb-march 03. Greetings to LOFT publications for asking us to submit stuff for their forthcoming book. Check out Graf in Osaka, the 5th floor featuring an exhibition produced by M41LH2 this december. The results of the workshop in m-cult presented in Kiasma on the 11th of december. |
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| 11/2002 | |
| Meet
PR, our new perusrakki at the office. In process: • 2 clubs in Helsinki and Jyväskylä • Exhibition in Osaka, Japan • Office space in Helsinki In construction: • Kontu.la space |
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| Tuomas
T. took part in a panel discussion with a theme "Ihmeellinen stadi"
(Wonderful "stadi", if you know what that means) in Sanomatalo.
Tuomas is the guy at left in this drawing by Nene Tsuboi in Arkkitehtiuutiset. Posing with Tuomas are (from left to right) Pentti Kareoja (professor in interior architecture in UIAH), Marja Sopanen (architect) and Trev Harris (professor in urban planning in HUT). |
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| 10/2002 | |
| Kontu.la,
a EU-funded community/IT space for suburb called Kontula in Helsinki.
EU feat. Aula with M41LH2... Coming in 2003: a book "Top projects for big clients". Join now! M41LH2 project "Transeuropean multidisciplinaries" seeks funding and partners. |
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| A
picture of us in Vaakuna opening, not used in Seura,
unfortunately. The stuff in the background is a 3M Reflex surface, reflexing
the flash quite well. Thanks to Taina Värri for the picture. We took part in an interesting workshop organized by m-cult to produce ideas for a new media centre in Helsinki. The sessions were very nice, thanks. |
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Vaakuna pictures added to the project chart, check it out.. Anteeksi -uutiset issue 2 published and distributed now. |
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| 09/2002 | |
MPHIS
Vaakuna approaching completion. |
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| MPHIS Tampere published in Arkkitehti, the finnish architectural review and FRAME, the international magazine of interior architecture and design. More pictures in the project chart. |  |
| 08/2002 | |
The extension to cultural centre Villa Karo in Benin in process by Johanna (picture). New club designs in process. MPHIS Vaakuna in construction. Anteeksiuutiset issue 1 published, print 27 pieces. |
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| 07/2002 | |
| M41 on vacation: Portugal, Estonia, Copenhagen, Turkey. Another MPHIS project starting in Helsinki. Go to see for yourself in center of Helsinki, corner of Sokos. |  |
| 06/2002 | |
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We've just moved to a new location at anteeksi - just around the
corner from Kippari!
This means we have a new address and faxnumber: Kalliolanrinne 4A8 FIN-00510 Helsinki fax +358 9 694 0847 |
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