Plans Drawn to Bring Skyscrapers to Helsinki's Landscape
Architects' rendering of the proposed towers.
Image: Cino Zucchi Architetti - One Works - Buro Happold
An Italian architecture firm has drawn up plans to build a 40-storey high skyscraper in Helsinki’s Pasila district. If the plans materialise, 10 towers could be built in the area.
The tallest skyscraper would be 40-storeys, or 160 metres, high. The lowest would be just 20 storeys.
Architects have planned shops for the first floors of the skyscrapers. Between 3,000 and 4,000 places of employment would fit in a 100,000 square metre floor space designated for businesses. Flats are also being planned for some 1,200 residents.
The city planning proposal is to be drawn up next year. Pasila, a major transport and corporate hub north of the city centre, is also site of the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE's headquarters.
The Cino Zucchi Architetti architecture firm's plans are on display at Helsinki's Laituri exhibition hall near the Kamppi bus station through December 3.
Currently, the tallest building in Finland is a high-rise in Helsinki’s Vuosaari district. It is 100 metres tall.
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