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Savoy is a restaurant in Helsinki, Finland, located on the Eteläesplanadi street. The restaurant opened on 3 June 1937. [ 1 ] It is located in a space designed by Finnish architects Aino and Alvar Aalto , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and furnished by the company Artek , which they had founded two years earlier.
The theatre did not acquire a permanent home until 1902, after a purpose-built structure was erected prominently in the heart of Helsinki, adjacent to the city's main railway station, the Helsinki Central railway station. The building was designed by Onni Tarjanne in the National Romantic style, inspired by romantic nationalism.
The current facilities of the Theatre Academy are located in the Sörnäinen district in Helsinki, in two separate buildings: TeaK-Kookos (Haapaniemenkatu 6) and Teak-Vässi (Lintulahdenkatu 3). TeaK-Kookos houses all of the academy's operations apart from the Department of Lighting and Sound Design, which operates at TeaK-Vässi.
The University of the Arts Helsinki (Finnish: Taideyliopisto, Swedish: Konstuniversitetet), also known as Uniarts Helsinki, is a Finnish arts university that was launched in the beginning of 2013. Apart from a few exceptions, it is the only university in Finland that provides education in the fields it represents.
The Kumpula Campus (Finnish: Kumpulan kampus, Swedish: Campus Gumtäkt) is a science campus of the University of Helsinki. The campus is located some four kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, in the Kumpula district. Completed in 2005, it currently provides study and research facilities for about 6,000 students and 1,000 teachers/researchers.
The theatre designed by Engel soon became too small as the interest in theatre grew rapidly among the citizens of Helsinki. The new theatre building was opened on 28 November 1860. The new building, which was designed by Georg Theodor von Chiewitz , was built on Skillnaden, on the same site as the current Svenska Teatern.
The name of the building is a pun: it can mean dipole in Finnish, but also "the second Poly", the second building of the polytechnic students. [2] [3] The original Polytechnic Students' Union, now called the "Old Poly" (Finnish: Vanha Poli), was a National Romantic building located on Lönnrotinkatu in Helsinki that was left behind when the university moved to Otaniemi.
Today it is one of the main buildings of the Aalto University's campus in Otaniemi, Espoo. [4] The first part of the building was completed in 1965 and the extension with the major auditoriums in 1975. [5] The library building of the university was completed in 1969, also designed by Alvar Aalto. [6]