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The third residential tower, Lumo One welcomed its inhabitants this June. The 31-storey high tower rises to 120 meters. The construction works for the fourth tower, and preparation for the remaining towers are also continuing. Once fully completed, the Kalasatama Centre comprises 8 high-rise residential towers between 24 and 37 storeys.

An educational survey among young Finnish doctors is conducted annually by the Finnish Junior Doctors’ Association. The results of the latest survey were published recently, and the young doctors gave Kalasatama health and well-being centre highest possible score, five stars.

UPM Headquarters designed by Helin & Co will be one of this year’s artworks in the annual LUX Helsinki light festival. A 3D video piece by Soil Searchers Collective will be projected to the façade of the building. Its Songs We Sing is an animated 3D video projection that invites viewers to explore an altogether different kind of forest.

Bryga deck park on top of REDI Kalasatama centre is presented on the latest issue (no 46) of the international Paysage Topscape magazine dedicated to landscape architecture. Bryga was chosen as environmental structure of the year in 2019 with its high-quality, modern landscape architecture with rainwater motifs and compositions of archipelago plants. Along with the deck park, the Kalastamanpuisto park connected to REDI centre is also presented in the article.

Loisto tower in Helsinki’s Kalasatama welcomes its inhabitants. The 32-storey tower is the second to complete of a tower composition of eight high-rise buildings that, together with the shopping centre REDI forms the Kalasatama Centre.

The Metsä pavilion designed by Helin & Co has been shortlisted in World Architecture News Awards in the Wood in Architecture category.

Länsimetro (West Metro) has received the 2020 Nordic Lighting Design Award. Projects eligible for the Nordic Lighting Design Award are the national winners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden from the past two years.

The entry for REDI Kalasatama Centre won an international design-build competition in 2010. Part of the plan was an outline of a deck park placed on the roof of the commercial centre. The park in its completed form has now been chosen as 2019 Environmental Structure of the Year (Vuoden ympäristörakenne 2019).

Helin & Co Architects is designing a wooden Metsä pavilion to be used during the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The pavilion will rise to the site of the Finnish Embassy in Japan, which is centrally located in Tokyo near the Roppongi district.

The “Primary-Stingy Block of Flats” designed by Helin & Co Architects has received Highly Commended award in the Affordable Housing category in WAN-Awards 2018, one of the largest international architecture awards. The awards aim to promote and celebrate the latest in architectural schemes. The award ceremony was held in London last November.

Kalasatama Health and Well-being Centre has been awarded again, this time in Winner category of the ICONIC AWARDS 2018: Innovative Architecture. Originally established on the initiative of the German Bundestag, the German Design Council is tasked with honouring good design and thus enhancing the quality of life in our society.

Kalasatama Health and Well-being Centre has yet again gained international recognition, having been shortlisted for an award in 2018 World Architecture Festival in the category Health - Completed Buildings. Kalasatama Health and Well-being centre recently received the European Healthcare Design 2018 Highly Commended Award in London.

Kalasatama Health and well-being centre received European Healthcare Design – Highly Commended Award. The awards aim to make a significant contribution towards the development of knowledge and standards in the design of healthcare environments around the world. The European Healthcare Design Congress is organised yearly by Architects for Health and SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange.

The awards are organised by Architects for Health and SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, and will be presented at an illustrious ceremony during the final session of the European Healthcare Design 2018 Congress & Exhibition on 12 June. The awards make a significant contribution towards the development of knowledge and standards in the design of healthcare environments around the world.

Helin & Co Architects will design an urban area of about 50 square kilometres for 500 000–700 000 inhabitants in Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The area lies on the northern side of Bhaktapur, the old capital of the country and a UNESCO world heritage site.

Warm atmosphere, clarity, lots of daylight, novel functionality and, above all, user perspective instead of institutional look and exhausting corridors. These are themes that the designers of the Kalasatama Health and Well-being Centre mulled over when they started work on the new building at Helin & Co Architects, commissioned by the City of Helsinki.