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Hakunila Housing

19.2.2009
NOW’s Hakunila housing scheme is being reviewed by the City of Vantaa Urban Planning Board in March, as Vantaa’s Urban Planning Department has prepared a amendment proposal for the lot use. Construction is scheduled to start in Autumn 2009.

Towards Greater Helsinki 2050

25.1.2009
The final report for the Greater Helsinki Vision 2050 continuation work can be downloaded here (in Finnish). The report contains analysis and assessment of ideas from the competition phase, workshop and citizen participation results and policy recommendations for future planning for the metropolitan region. In collaboration with WSP Finland, YTK/TKK and Demos Helsinki.

Lakeside house published

25.1.2009
NOW’s Lakeside house featured on the cover of Elle Decor Italy’s February issue. Giorgio Possenti took the wonderful photos, and Laura Maggio wrote the piece.

Nijiyura tenugui

20.12.2008
Nijiyura
tenugui was made in collaboration by NAKANI and Nene Tsuboi. The patterns Aurora and Niji (means Rainbow in Japanese) are introduced in Monocle’s Christmas gift guide 2008.

Marumaru Mugs

15.12.2008
Marumaru mugs are made in collaboration by iittala and Nene Tsuboi (Mitsumaru). Now available at NAPA Gallery in Helsinki and at the new
Monocle shop in London.

Espoo Hospitality

12.12.2008
NOW’s entry “Espoo Hospitality” for the Espoo Hospital two-stage open architectural competition was disqualified. C’est la vie!

Kontupiste works.

12.12.2008
Kontupiste is a community center proposed and designed by Roosa and Tuomas Toivonen in 2002 for the Urban II community initiative project in Kontula, Helsinki. A new study shows that the community center, and the local projects that it has supported and fostered have had a major role in turning around reputation the troubled neighbourhood, and created positive development in the area.

A living room, big house for Inari

5.12.2008
Sámi Cultural Centre architectural competition is settled. NOW’s entry “Stohpu” was made in collaboration with Nao Saito.

Y-house permit drawings submitted

1.12.2008
Permit drawings submitted for Y-house, a seaside weekend home. Construction will start in early 2009.

Iittala Ginza mug launch

28.11.2008
Nene Tsuboi designed a limited edition mug “Villit eläimet” for the opening of Iittala’s new Ginza store in Tokyo, Japan.

Archives

ARCHITECTURE

EGO

Office Interior, Helsinki, 2007

ESPOO HOSPITALITY

Hospital Competition, Espoo, Finland, 2008

HAKUNILA HOUSING TOWER

Housing, Vantaa, Finland, 2007- (ongoing)

MTV3

TV-News Studio, Helsinki, 2006

SAUNALAHTI SCHOOL

Saunalahti school competition, Espoo, Finland, 2007

SHANGHAI 2010

Finnish Pavillion for Shanghai 2010 Expo, Shanghai, China, 2008

STOCKHOLM PUBLIC LIBRARY

Competition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006

YUKKI

Housing, St. Petersburg, 2007

URBANISM

APPARA URBAN VILLAGE

Competition, Hämeenlinna, Finland, 2005

IDDAWALK

Competition, Kristiansand, Norway, 2005

RENAISSANCE

Competition, Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland, 2007

TOWARDS CITY 2.0

Competition, Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland, 2007

Towards City 2.0 proposes a new operating system for the Metropolitan Region that involves and invites individuals, companies and communities to take part in changing and building the city together.
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We, our children, and their children’s children will live in cities. What will be our contribution? How to re-invent the city? The only way planning can deliver change and offer improvements in the quality is by engaging inhabitants in planning and implementation. For this purpose we have created a city that builds itself. The duopoly of state and business is over. As we face massive change brought by the challenges and possibilities of tomorrow, we need a new way of thinking and doing to develop the city, a new operating system and user interface for Helsinki Metropolitan Region. Our new challenge is to create a New Public - to link up communities with each other and create a city that fosters urban mass innovations for lifestyle, economy, planning, culture, ecology and services. Big dreams and decisions are necessary. We propose creating a region-wide ambititious and visionary leadership level while shifting the power of applying and implementing the strategies closer to the local neighborhood level. This re-structuring of the urban planning, management and land use policy aims at creating a smarter, faster, livelier, and more diverse city for all.
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Towards City 2.0 was awarded the shared 2nd prize, and NOW + Demos was commissioned to work on the Greater Helsinki 2050 project.

Team: Tuomas Toivonen, Hans Park in collaboration with Roope Mokka and Aleksi Neuvonen (DEMOS Helsinki)
Client: Greater Helsinki Region (MAL-neuvottelukunta) , FInland, 2007-

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OTHER

HELSINKI CENTRAL LIBRARY

Study, Helsinki, 2007

JUNKSPACE = MY SPACE

Research, event, Helsinki, 2007

JUSTICE

Cross, Turku, Finland, 2007

CROSS

Team: Tuomas Toivonen
Client: Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, Turku, Finland, 2007

MEGAMUSEUM

Research & exhibition work, Finnish National Gallery, 2007

FINNISH NATIONAL GALLERY PERMANENT COLLECTION

A focus exhibition about the FNG permanent collection. We produced a timeline of key works, a scale model of a museum that would be needed to exhibit all 33,000+ artworks. The building organises the collection chronologically (vertically) and by type of artwork (six wings: drawings, paintings, graphic arts, sculpture, photography, other), thus creating a a quantitative 3-dimensional representation of the collection. Visit megamuseo at Ateneum.

Project team: Tuomas Toivonen, Nenen Tsuboi, Ville Haimala, 
Model team: Dylan Kwok, Chris Göbel, Yuko Takagi, Minja Hildén, Satoko Taguma, Satoshi Yoshida, Sayaka Matsubara, Aiko Tsukahara, Momoka Kitano, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Timothy Austin, Marie de Bruyn, Romi Bohnenberg, Ville Haimala, Lauri Johansson, Martti Kalliala, Petri Herrala, Seppo Toivonen
Client: Ateneum / Finnish National Gallery 

Photo: Niklas Kullström

NEW ARRIVALS

Exhibition, Helsinki, 2007

REDRUM

Night club interior, Helsinki, 2007

Info

We develop and design for now, the contemporary condition. The scale and scope of our work extends from city to object, from strategy to detail. Our aim is to make the world more interesting and enjoyable.


NOW for Architecture and Urbanism Oy
Salomonkatu 17 A 4th floor
FIN-00100 Helsinki

office( )nowoffice.org
fax:+358 (0)9 710 910

Tuomas Toivonen
tuomas( )nowoffice.org
+358 (0)40 516 9690


NOW OFFICE Ay

Salomonkatu 17 A 4th floor
FIN-00100 Helsinki

Nene Tsuboi / Mitsumaru
nene( )nowoffice.org
+358 (0)40 765 7450