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18-528: An earlier building at the same location was the Turku barracks , which was destroyed in the Finnish Civil War in 1918. Lasipalatsi, designed by three young architects Viljo Revell , Heimo Riihimäki and Niilo Kokko , was built on the same site in 1936. Lasipalatsi, containing offices , restaurants and a film theatre , was originally designed as a temporary building, later to be torn down to allow

36-769: A highway leading to Turku . Before that, the Russian military in Helsinki had been mainly stationed in the Merikasarmi building in Katajanokka , which then was transferred to the use of the navy of the Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland . The original plans for the barracks were made by Carl Ludvig Engel , but it was built on a commission from Nikolai Sinebrychoff . A number of side buildings were built on

54-483: A larger office building to be constructed in its place. The Varuboden grocery, Oy Siemens AB and the HOK ice cream bar were Lasipalatsi's most prominent businesses for decades. At the time of its opening, the film theatre Bio Rex was one of the biggest film theatres in the city, and many formal premieres of Finnish films were shown there. The original plans to tear down Lasipalatsi were postponed decade after decade, but

72-614: A wide glazed extension. 60°10′11.72″N 24°56′8.41″E  /  60.1699222°N 24.9356694°E  / 60.1699222; 24.9356694 Narinkka Narinkka or Narinkkatori ( Swedish : Narinken ) is a square in Kamppi , Helsinki , Finland . It is surrounded by the Kamppi Center to the west, the former financial building of the Turku barracks to the east and the Scandic Hotels hotel Simonkenttä to

90-524: The Finnish Civil War in 1918, and the Lasipalatsi building was built in its place. The financial building of the barracks remains, and it has hosted the central bus station of Helsinki from 1935 to 2005, when the bus station was moved underground in connection to the Kamppi Center. The platforms for long-distance traffic were on a square between the bus station and Lasipalatsi, at the site of

108-530: The Lasipalatsi building, originally intended as a temporary building, was built in its place. Some of the last buildings in the complex were demolished as late as the 1950s. Nowadays, only the auxiliary building west of the main building remains. Up to the completion of the Kamppi Center in 2005 this building served as Helsinki's main bus station , after which it was in use as the City of Helsinki planning office's exhibition space called Laituri, which operated in

126-663: The Russian words "на рынке" (literally "at the market square"). A marketplace for used clothes of this kind had already been present in Helsinki since the 18th century, originally at the site of the current main military outpost in Helsinki, later at the lot of the Bank of Finland , where it was moved to Kamppi, when the main building of the Bank of Finland was built. There later was a terminus stop Simonkenttä fort buses travelling to Haaga and Konala . Because of steep height differences in

144-527: The Eurovillage event related to the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki. The 2006 sculpture Yrittäjäveistos ( Leverty ) by Eva Löfdahl , which was raised to honour the Finnish entrepreneurs, is located at the square. The site of Narinkka originally held courtyard buildings of the Turku barracks and an exercise field for the Russian military in the barracks. The Turku barracks was destroyed in

162-576: The building also wasn't renovated, because its final fate was still left open. In the 1980s, large sheets advertising the Ale Pub underlined the shameful state of the worn building. Only when the Board of Construction set a threat fee, the Apartment Bureau renovated the building's outer walls. In summer 1985, the old grayish paint was replaced with through-coloured white mortar. Helsinkians opposed

180-539: The building until 2018. The entire building was gutted in 2021, retaining only the outer walls, in order to build the Culture Barracks, which opened in November 2023. Following the remodelling, designed by Sarc Architects, the building houses three cinema auditoriums (all underground), as well as various restaurants, an outdoor terrace and an events space. The west side of the building has been supplemented with

198-528: The current Narinkka square were the platforms for incoming traffic and platforms for buses to northern Espoo and western Vantaa . The former bus station building currently hosts restaurants and the urban planning exhibition Laituri. Narinkka got its name from a market square located from 1876 to 1929 along Simonkatu, at the site of the current Scandic Hotel Simonkenttä, where the Finnish Jews and Finnish Russians sold used clothes. The name comes from

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216-495: The destruction of the building several times, and the Museum Bureau also supported its protection. After decades of deterioration, Lasipalatsi was protected and renovated into a culture and media centre in 1998, also containing cafés and many corporations in the media business. The building also hosted Internet services and exhibition halls. The Yleisradio Morning TV used to be broadcast from Lasipalatsi, and next to it

234-523: The military, known as Campementsplats , where the name Kamppi comes from. The area was later used by the Finnish Guard until it was taken into use by the Russian military settled in Helsinki. The Turku barracks was constructed from 1830 to 1833 at the site of the current Lasipalatsi building, which was at the edge of the city proper at the time, near the Espoo toll station, which was the start of

252-488: The museum residing in Lasipalatsi. [REDACTED] Media related to Lasipalatsi at Wikimedia Commons Turku barracks The Turku barracks was a barracks building for the military of Russia built in 1833 in Kamppi , Helsinki , Finland , along the street Läntinen Henrikinkatu (now known as Mannerheimintie ). The Kamppi area had already been used under Swedish rule as a camping and practice area for

270-760: The ruins remained up to the 1930s. The barracks' former exercise field was used as a sports field and a skating rink during the 1930s. The remaining side buildings near the barracks were in use by the Finnish Defence Forces in the 1920s, housing the Uusimaa Dragoon Regiment, the command company and the Field Artillery Regiment 1. The Finnish state donated the Turku barracks to the city of Helsinki in an exchange in 1934. The next year, after it had been destroyed,

288-696: The south. To the north the square borders the Salomonkatu street, which is nowadays a pedestrian zone , to the south between the square and the Simonkatu street is the Kamppi Chapel (the Silence Chapel). The square got its current form during the construction of the Kamppi Center and was built in 2005, when it also got its name. The square has held public events such as various exhibitions, sports competitions and outdoor concerts, including

306-399: The west and southwest sides of the main building, and a large exercise field was built between them, at the site of the current Narinkka square. During the Finnish Civil War , in connection of the conquest of Helsinki on 12 April 1918, the Turku barracks caught fire and was almost completely destroyed. It was not rebuilt, but instead dismantling started the next year, even though some of

324-537: Was the Yle Shop. The film theatre Bio Rex is specialised in showing non-mainstream cultural films. Lasipalatsi has been included in the selection of Finnish masterpieces of modernism in architecture by the Docomomo International organization. The building is undergoing extensive renovations as of October 2016. A new museum, Amos Rex , has been built under the Lasipalatsi square with some parts of

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