Finland Love me tender

Architecture and urban planning
The City of Helsinki, Finland, has launched a tender competition to sell the Old Customs House in Katajanokka harbour area for redevelopment. The goal of the competition is to find a technically and economically feasible and architecturally outstanding solution for redeveloping the building.
Dating from 1901, the Old Customs House designed by Gustaf Nyström was considered architecturally meritorious when completed, and it plays an important role in Finland’s architectural history as a hallmark of late 19th century architecture. The two-storey building originally housed both cold and warm storage for customs warehousing, a customs chamber, and the transport office’s work and customer facilities. Katajanokka is the east-facing side of Helsinki’s iconic South Har
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