Loci Landscape Architects

Hatsinanpuisto is a new, diverse public urban park that brings nature into the urban environment. Located in Espoo, a city part of the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. The park is situated close to Leppävaara train station and is bordered by busy roads and the railway. Leppävaara District is home to nearly 80 000 people and […]

The Urban Environment House is a new office building in Helsinki, Finland. The office collects all the Helsinki City Urban Environment Division’s services in one place and around 1500 people work in the building. High goals were set for the environmental and energy efficiency of the building, and it has received a BREEAM (Building Research […]

Isonpellontie residential block is close to a riverfront park, between the busiest road in Finland (Ring I) and the river Vantaanjoki. The project started after a win in an invitational social housing architecture competition in 2015. The site posed the biggest challenge: the area is close to a flooding river in a cultural landscape with […]

Myyrmäki Sports Park is a versatile public sports and exercise centre in the city of Vantaa. The area is developed as a part of the transforming Myyrmäki region. Myyrmäki has been designed and built in the 1960s and it reflects the urban design ideals of the time. Now, the redevelopment seeks to balance the growing […]

Tikkurila Waterfront, Eastern Park Area (Vernissaranta, Väritehtaanranta and Vernissasilta) Tikkurila Riverfront Park forms an outdoor living room and a green counterpart for the urban Tikkurila centre – the major district of Vantaa with one of the busiest railway stations in Finland. The park is located by the Keravanjoki River in the centre of Tikkurila in […]

  The restauration of the manor garden focused on strengthening the look of the most significant era of the garden, the formal garden designed in the 1920s and 1930s by Bengt Schalin, and recreating what had largely been destroyed. The formal garden at the very proximity of the main building was the only part of […]

The green residential block explores the functionality of green areas on apartment building rooftops. The project combines an experimental green roof and green façade design with research. The aim was to use the experimental construction of green infrastructure to examine the feasibility of landscaping on the roofs of blocks of flats. The objective of the […]

The Mall of Tripla, the largest construction project in Finland and the second busiest railway station in Finland, comprises three city blocks and extensive underground facilities, serving as a central hub for Helsinki’s Pasila district. The building includes a mall, a parking hall and a hotel as well as offices and apartments. Each commercial storey of […]

Photographs: Pyry Kantonen Photography The Tikkurila River Park is developing into an outdoor living room that is a green pair for the urban Tikkurila centre – the major district of Vantaa that is Finland’s third busiest railway station and is in constant renewal. The first phase of the Tikkurila River Park was opened to the […]