Helsinki library

A modern library, as a elementary and great emblem of the Finnish essence, culture and know-how, and result of the most accomplished wooden construction technology. These are the aims that give birth to an unordinary building, voluntarily unaccustomed to the Finnish landscape, in order to lead the user to a trip somewhere else, in the reading time of an exotic novel. A return to books and to knowledge source, to ensure its continuous existence and its memory, thanks to this contemporary library, also equipped with all the new electronic media and devices. The book, a never-ending memory, can tell us stories and tales from here and elsewhere, like a hundred-year-old tree. This is our starting point. As the roots of the tree are anchored f... More