In the vicinity of the Otaniemi University Campus area designed by famed Finnish architect Alvar Aalto is also located these headquarters built in the 1980s. The design for the project was chosen through an invited competition. Juska Junttila was the architect in charge throughout the project from the early competition entry all the way to the final completion of the building.

Originally the building housed Finnoil Co’s headquarters, nowadays the premises are occupied by Gasum Co. The original building complex included a west wing and a gas station, both of which were later pulled down to make way for a new motorway of the expanding Greater Helsinki metropolitan area.

See Arkkitehti magazine 1/1988 for more information (in Finnish).

Together with a creative group Ideark has brainstormed a multifuction centre that offers a market squere-like building area at a traffic crossroads. Entrepreneurs of all fields could operate in these loft-inspired spaces creating a new kind of community of work and living.