Finnish Design Shop in Turku
Finnish Design Shop, Turku building, avanto architects architecture images, Finland retail showroom
Finnish Design Shop in Turku, Finland
28 October 2022
Finnish Design Shop – Nordic design store
Design: avanto architects ltd
Location: Turku, Finland
Photos by kuvio.com / Anders Portman
Finnish Design Shop, Turku
Finnish Design Shop is the world?s largest online store of Nordic design. The company?s fast growth accelerated during the pandemic, as physical stores needed to close their doors. The new building, headquarters of the company, comprises a logistics center delivering products to over one hundred countries, a showroom, and a restaurant.
The design task was challenging. The large-scale building was mainly formed according to the requirements of the automated robot warehouse inside, and there was no possibility to articulate the building with massing or roof form. Even though the location right next to the Turku city ring road and near the airport allowed for a simple structure, the user wished for the building to represent the design company?s values of high quality and easy to approach.
Even though the building couldn?t tell about its use by its form, we didn?t want to design just ?a decorated shed? as described in the classic book Learning from Las Vegas. We found the concept for the building in the near surroundings. Right north from the building plot, there is a nature conservation area and the third biggest boulder from ice age called the Devil?s Nest.
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