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Helsinki’s renovated Olympic Stadium launches into a new era

The Olympic Stadium was unveiled four years after extensive renovations began. Its 1930s functionalist architecture and design have been meticulously preserved and enhanced with 21st-century technology and facilities (see photo show).

Arts & culture Slideshows

Lux Helsinki fends off the winter darkness

Full of illuminated surprises, the annual Lux Helsinki light festival uses coloured beams to transform some of the city’s best loved buildings and streets in early January. You can see them in our photos without braving the cold.

Life & society Society

Helsinki invests in its people with a library that reinvents the genre

Helsinki’s new central library, Oodi, is the place to go if you want to read a book, meet up with your friends, borrow a cello or cut metal with lasers.

2005

The year Helsinki Design Week, Scandinavia's biggest design fest, was founded

Arts & culture Museums

Helsinki’s Amos Rex reaches new heights and new audiences

Architecturally faithful renovations and additions turn a landmark building in Helsinki into Finland’s newest large-scale cultural attraction.

Life & society Sports

Grab your skateboard: Finnish architect creates sculpted skate-scapes

For Helsinkian Janne Saario, a childhood passion for skateboarding led to a pro career. Later he became one of the few architects in the world to focus on site-specific skateparks as high-quality urban spaces that inspire skaters and flow with the landscape.

Business & innovation Business

Finland devotes energy to Astana Expo 2017

Finnish solutions for generating clean energy get visibility at a global expo in the capital of Kazakhstan from June 10 to September 10, 2017.

Business & innovation Webpick

The moment for industrial wood building in Finland is right now

A wooden house is known to be a pleasant, quiet and healthy environment. Finland boasts an especially great number of public construction projects using logs.

Life & society Society

Helsinki sees seaside sauna renaissance

Several new sauna buildings have impressively transformed parts of the Helsinki waterfront, increasing the number of public saunas where visitors and locals can go for an authentic Finnish sauna experience – and a bracing dip in the Baltic Sea.