The Aalto University Väre Building in Espoo, Finland
The Aalto University Väre, Espoo Campus Building, Finnish Architecture Image
The Aalto University Väre Building in Espoo
Campus Arts and Business Facility in Finland – design by Verstas Architects
18 Jan 2020
The Aalto University Väre Building
Architects: Verstas Architects
Location: Espoo, Finland
The The Aalto University Väre Building is the new home of the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture and the School of Business. Väre, which means ripple or glimmer in English, brings together the schools of design and business in a globally unique way. It is situated in the Otaniemi campus in Espoo, Finland, world-famous of its modernist architecture, and introduces a significant new dynamic to the campus. The Väre building plays a key role both in the transformation of the Aalto University, a merger of earlier universities of business, arts and design and technical sciences, and in the densification and diversification of the Otaniemi district as a part of the growing Finnish metropolitan region. The architectural design is based on the winning entry in an open international competition in two stages organized in 2012-2013.
The Väre building is adjacent to the earlier main building and library designed by Alvar and Elissa Aalto in the 1960s. The project had therefore the added challenge of fitting into the context of highly respected modern master. Aino and Alvar Aalto laid out the whole original masterplan for the carefully landscaped campus in ...
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