Poster Unbuilt Helsinki MFA

“Unbuilt Helsinki” the process

Unbuilt Helsinki is an exhibition about the unbuilt city and its inhabitants curated by Åbäke & Nene Tsuboi with the archives of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. ‘Unbuilt Helsinki’ is not a critique of Helsinki as it is. This is an alternative present and future. A parallel city where ambitious and utopian visions are realized. Selected from the museums archives unrealized projects are selected, researched and brought to life as models with the help of students and young architects.

 

CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION by Sigurd Frosterus, 1904

Concrete model by Yuko Ozawa with Betoni, 2012

 

wooden model

Rubber molds ready for casting

concrete casts drying out

Close up Railway station in studio

top view railway station

Railway station in studio

 

 

PARLIAMENT OF FINLAND by Eliel Saarinen, 1908

Granite model by Zita Floret with Loimaan Kivi oy, 2012

 

reddish Kalvola granite

Kalvola granite

CNC machine cutting tower

cutting the granite

parliament entrance

parliament at Loimaan Kivi

 

 

ALKO FACTORY by P.E. Blomstedt, 1935

Glass model by Ioana Maftei with iittala, 2012

 

cardboard model Alko factory

half the mold in the studio

seven molds in anticipation

the wet plaster mold

blowing one of the buildings

just out of the mold

cut and polished pieces at iittala

 

 

KIOSKS, 1992

Meccano model by Hannes Halttunen with Laserle Oy, 2012

 

all the meccano parts

all nine Kiosks

kiosks at Flow festival

 

 

LINNANMAKI RADIO ANTENNA & OBSERVATION TOWER by pertti Hokkanen & Martti Kukkonen, 1975

Brass model by Carmen Lee with PPD Ltd, 2012

 

radio tower in progress

brass etching

radio tower final sheet

assembling brass in studio

 

MARLMI CHURCH by Reima and Raili Pietilä, 1967

3D model by Timo Arjanko with Lumart, 2012

Woven model with Jokipiin Pellava, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvy2JOvVPtc

 

malmi church presentation

 

 

G.F.STOCKMANN by Wäino Gustaf Palmqvist & Einar Sjöström, 1916

Wood model by Kento Yamada with Koskisen Oy and Aalto University wood workshop, 2012

 

STOCKMANN EXTENXION by Sigurd Frosterus, 1949

Steel model by Kento Yamada with Laserle Oy, 2012

 

laser cut

glue the layers together

Stockmann in workshop

tower

Stockman main and tower

main window

 

 

STAGES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART by Kazuo Shinohara, 1993

Bronze model buy Leonard Ma with Taidevalimo Kärkkäinen, 2012

 

wax model in progress

attaching air tubes

bottom

melting the bronze

casting the bronze

the bottom

bronze after polishing

towards kiasma

kiasma in kiasma

 

 

HELSINKI HIGHWAY by Wilbur Smith & Pentti Polvinen, 1968

Neon model by TiinaTeräs with Neoneffect Oy, 2012

 

the waters edge in green

fusing glass together

bending the neon tubes

the waters edge in green

 

 

 

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