16.4.2013

Avanto Architects won the competition New housing solutions for people with autism spectrum disorders with Freja Ståhlberg-Aalto.

7.11.2012

Avanto Architects get social. Find us on Facebook and like us to get the latest news!

15.10.2012

The site of Hernesaari public saunas was tagged by Dublin Design Collective's Helsinki tagged! project. See tag number 40 for uploaded photos.

27.8.2012

Avanto Architects presents two works in Venice Biennale 2012: the Hernesaari public saunas in Finnish pavilion and artwork White Box demonstrating the office's design philosophy in Nordic pavilion celebrating 50-year anniversary. The installation has a counter part in Kamppi shopping center as well and there will be an interesting connection between the two boxes...

12.8.2012

Anu and Ville gave lecture "human touch" at the 12th Alvar Aalto Symposium Crafted presenting the long process of designing and building the Chapel of St.Lawrence.

7.6.2012

Avanto Architects was awarded Fennia Prize 2012 together with the rest of the Kekkilä design team for the design of Home&Garden product series.

6.6.-30.9.2012

Avanto Architects' ecological case study house Noppa is presented at Museum of Finnish Architecture exhibition "Smart living - Sustainability in Finnish small-scale residential building".

19.-21.4.2012

Three events on young architects & architecture practices by Newly Drawn - Emerging Finnish Architects took place in New York.

12.4.2012

Anu and Ville told 8.4.2012 about their thoughts on making architecture in a YLE Teema documentary film Tekijänä (as a creator).

28.3.2012

The Hernesaari saunas are presented at Museum of Finnish Architecture exhibition Shorelines until 27.5.2012.

25.3.2012

The organ of The Chapel of St.Lawrence with ten organ stops was consecrated this Sunday as Markku Hietaharju gave a concert representing the soft sound of the romantic Thulé style instrument.

19.10.2011

The Chapel of St.Lawrence has won European Copper in Architecture Award 2011 and the 2011 Best Lighting Competition.

12.10.2011

The black and white Four-cornered villa was awarded Finnish Color2011 prize "for it's coherent - even severe" color planning.

15.8.2011

Avanto Architects starts designing new wood products for UPM together with Helorinne&Kallio and Jaana Karell. The new UPM Living business unit manufactures wood-based products for interior decoration as well as high-quality building materials for gardens and homes.

21.7.2011

Avanto Architects designed an ecological case study house Noppa that has a traditional ventilation system without any mechanical device - something new in current way of building in Finland. More info on the whole project...

29.3.2011

Avanto Architects got a honorary mention in Peltosaari ideas competition.

1.3.2011

Avanto Architects has moved to the city centre.
Our new address is:
Kalevankatu 31 a 3
00100 Helsinki

14.2.2011

The Chapel of St.Lawrence has won the Concrete Award 2010 and the City of Vantaa Quality Prize 2010.

17.8.2010

The Chapel of St.Lawrence was consecrated last Sunday. The art works opening ceremony is August 21th at 2pm. The building is open to public the whole day. more info...

18.6.2010

Sauna Kyly was selected to The Venice Biennale 2010.

14.6.2010

Avanto Architects designed Expo Sauna Kyly in Finnish pavilion in Shanghai Expo 2010.

9.6.2010

Sauna Kyly is presented 9.6.2010 - 26.9.2010 at the Finnish architecture 0809 exhibition at The Museum of Finnish Architecture.

18.03.2010

Avanto Architects' first product design project - modular garden shed for Kekkilä - was chosen as the best garden product of the year 2010 by The Associaton of Finnish garden product retailers.

03.10.2009

Avanto takes part in the NEWLY DRAWN project. A book presenting nine emerging Finnish architecture practices just came out.

03.10.2009

Kyly won the Habitare sauna competition, was selected among the 12 most interesting products by interior journalists and got the Forum magazine +1 award for best new product 2009 at the fair.

17.03.2009

Avanto Architects' entry Kyly was chosen as one of the four finalists in Habitare 09 design competition. Finland's largest design fair will be held in 9.-13. September 2009.

17.03.2009

Public voted Avanto Architects' entry Meritähti (Seastar) second best in the International Ideas Competition for Koivusaari, Helsinki.

02.02.2009

Building of the Cemetery chapel starts in February. Rakennuspartio Oy was selected as the main contractor. The opening of the chapel is planned to be in summer 2010.

07.07.2008

Avanto Architects' project for Torino Geodesign is exhibited at Palafuksas in Torino, Italy. The project is one of the main events of Torino 2008 World Design Capital. The process has brought around fifty designers from all over the world to work with the local communities and Italian companies to realise projects to satisfy the needs of the communities.
www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it

14.02.2008

The competition for the artworks for the cemetery chapel has been decided. The first prize went to sculptor Pertti Kukkonen, Pekka Jylhä was awarded the second prize and
Olli Mantere the third prize. www.vantaanseurakunnat.fi

2.10.2007

Avanto Architects represented Finland with two projects - Villa Flexible and Stops - in International Competition of Young Architects Leonardo 2007 in Minsk, Belarus, and won the prize for the best realised one family house.

1.6.2007

Avanto Architects made a floating island "Ile Flottante" for Fiskars summer exhibition Transparent.

3.1.2007

Anu Puustinen and Ville Hara were awarded professor Erik Bryggman's and interior architect Carin Bryggman's grant for young architects and interior designers. The grant was founded by Finnish Association of Architects SAFA and Association of interior architects SIO in 1997.

Image: The resurrection chapel by E. Bryggman, Turku 1939-41

25.5.2006

Avanto Architects' entry "boats" was selected as a runner up in the stage 2 of the Tsunami Memorial Design Competition. More information under the section "projects".

4.11.2005

Avanto Architects has moved to a loft in a former power station designed by the pioneer of Finnish industrial architecture Selim A Lindqvist. The new contact information is provided under the office section.

25.1.2005

Avanto Architects' entry "lyhty" (lantern) for a city chapel competition was awarded with a honorary mention. more...