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  • Photo by Bruno Ehrs for Plaza Deco

  • Photo by Bruno Ehrs 2012

  • office xmas puzzle

  • Janne, Antti an Juho on site

  • Kilden has been awarded the Steel Structure of the Year prize by the Finnish Steel Structure Association.

  • Juho & Tomi @ Kilden hand-over

  • cocktails @ SMS Arkitekter

  • Truly best team effort from Anniina Koskela!

  • Start team best player Auvo Lindroos navigating defense

  • Bronze celembrations for PES Cup 2011 at the Olympic Rowing Stadium

  • Installing the 3D printer

  • Kilden team in purple

  • On fridays we serve Beijing Duck and Champagne

  • The Cloud City Banner

  • Pekka checking out the installation of the east facade

  • partners in the Konsertsal

  • PRIZES

    Glass Pavilion, Tampere/Finland
    1st prize, 2011

    Kindergarten, Hyvinkää/Finland
    Honorary mention, 2011

    Iakov Chernikhov Prize
    Nominee, 2010

    Blues- and Bookhouse, Notodden/Norway
    Honorary mention, 2010

    UPM Headquarters, Helsinki/Finland
    Special mention, 2009

    Pietilä Award for Young Architects
    2008

    Suurpelto III Ecological town, Espoo/Finland
    1st prize, 2008

    Sundsvall Performing Arts Centre, Sundsvall/Sweden
    Honorary mention, 2008

    Hanasaari Urban Plan, Helsinki/Finland
    1st Prize, 2007

    Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/Poland
    Special Award, 2007

    Estonian National Museum, Tartu/Estonia
    2nd prize, 2006

    New Sami Parliament, Kiruna/Sweden
    Shortlisted, 2005

    Performing Arts Center, Kristiansand/Norway
    1st prize, 2005

    Simonkappeli Chapel, Helsinki/Finland
    Purchase, 2005

    Museum Centre, Kotka/Finland
    Honorary Mention, 2004

    Cultural Cluster, Vantaa/Finland
    3rd Prize & Purchase, 2004

    Verkatehdas Cultural Centre, Hämeenlinna/Finland
    Honorary mention, 2003

    Tikkurila City Centre, Vantaa/Finland
    Shared 2nd prize, 2000

     

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    Wallpaper Architects Directory 2009

    Architect Magazine 10/2008

    Forum AID, 1/2008

    Project Baltia, issue 01.07

    ARK, Finnish Architectural Review 5/2007

    A10 Magazine, issue #16

    Of Arch, issue 96 (2007)

    ARK, Finnish Architectural Review 3/2007

    ARK, Finnish Architectural Review 2/2007

    Young European Architects, DAAB Publishers

    Wallpaper 3/2006

    Wettbeverbe Aktuell, 9/2006

    Wettbeverbe Aktuell, 4/2005

    ARK, Finnish Architectural Review, 2/2005

    Forum, Quarterly Review of Nordic Architecture and

    Design, 2/2005

    Norske Arkitektkonkurranser, 396/2005

    MAJA, Estonian Architectural Review, 2/2004

     

    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

    2010 Trienale de Lisboa, Lissabon/Portugal

    2010 Finnish Architecture 0809, Helsinki/Finland

    2010 Young Finnish Architects, Tianjin/China

    2009 Newly Drawn, Madrid/Spain

    2009 Architecture Biennale Rotterdam/The Netherlands

    2007 Finnischer Architektur, Berlin/Germany

    2005 IDE2005, Hong Kong

  • Juho, Samuli, Janne, Antti

  • Visiting the Maritime youth house with Bjarke, 2005.

  • Admiring the Dutch embassy in Berlin

  • partners in Fruken Larsen

  • EX-ALA HALL OF FAME

    Erling Sommerfeldt, David Hernando, Marthe Myrvoll, Esa Mäkitalo, Ingrid Kokkonen, Montserrat Fabregas, Jani Koivula, Renaissance Man, Roberto Aparicio, Samir Bhowmik, Heli Sonkkila, Jaakko Iso-Somppi, Julia Hertell, Iida Tulkki, Mai Wakita, Pauliina Skyttä, Kalle Berggren, Ossi Konttinen, Jan Galecki, Lotta Kindberg

    Wednesday, 23 February 2011

  • BIM

  • Klaus Stolt in 1974 playing base in Dave Isokynä Lindholms band Orfeus!

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  • Harri Ahokas, Architect

    Martin Genet, Architect

    Juho Grönholm, Architect, Partner

    Vladimir Ilic, Architect

    Julius Kekoni, Architect

    Anniina Koskela, Architect

    Auvo Lindroos, Architect

    Sami Mikonheimo, Architect

    Aleksi Niemeläinen, Architect

    Antti Nousjoki, Architect, Partner

    Niklas Mahlberg, Architect

    Heikki Riitahuhta, Architect

    Pauliina Rossi, Architect

    Pekka Sivula, Architect

    Pekka Tainio, Architecture student

    Jyri Tartia, Architecture student

    Janne Teräsvirta, Architect, Partner

    Sari Vesanen, Assistant

    Samuli Woolston, Architect, Partner

  • TOP COLLABORATORS: Klaus Stolt, Tomi Henttinen, Risto Wikberg, Juho Vuolteenaho, Mika Jaatinen, Esa Piironen

    Monday, 24 January 2011

  • Start Helsinki: ALA's official sports team, causing fear and respect in variable team sport opponents since 2004.

  • Henna, thank you!

  • juho building a sauna

  • Juho & Niklas @ Kilden 12/2010

  • The Loft studio before we started

  • Vesa Oiva from AOA & Juho in water

  • START-SARC 4-1

  • MVRDV 2008

  • 2008

  • Autumn Photo Shoot for the Cityscape Advisory Board

  • Samuli checking out the heating

  • Halloween in NY 2009

  • office 2006: Tomi, Niklas, Samuli, Janne, David, Erling, Antti, Juho, Pauliina & Pekka

  • Janne making a model 2004

  • Pekka Sivula and Niklas

  • Juho & Janne @ ALA KRS office 2005

  • Antti, Samuli, Juho & Janne in Tokyo 2008

  • model-master Klaus Stolt & Samuli 2004

  • Stolt's CNC machine, Janne & Antti 10/2004

  • making of the entry; in Antti's studio apartment 7/2004

  • 4 boys on the way to the prize ceremony 11/2004

  • charlies bar in KRS

  • ALA @ KRS

  • Auvo @ ALA-Norge office

  • Juho laser beaming the portico

  • ALA is a Helsinki-based architecture firm seeking fresh angles, flowing forms and surprising solutions on all levels of architecture.

    We challenge ourselves to provide alternatives, develop prototypes and look for innovations. We believe in creating beauty with a design approach which combines the intuitive with the analytic and the practical with the extravagant.

    We currently employ over 20 people in Finland and Norway, with projects ranging from underground stations to housing areas, high-rise developments and culture venues.

  • Antti working with TUTU competition entry

  • samuli; TUTU competition entry section at the laptop screen

  • Janne 11/2004

  • Juho 11/2004

  • Lahti City Theatre by Pekka Salminen 1983: the 3D non-smoking sign. Respect!

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