Finnish Embassy, Tokyo

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The most important is to create an image of Finland. The Embassy must represent Finland in the right way.

~ Rainer Mahlamäki

They obviously want Finland to appear stylish, sophisticated, pretty ill, and translucent…

I feel as if Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd, the designers of the new Finnish Embassy in Tokyo, are confused – because this thing right here is way too sexy to be an embassy. An art gallery, perhaps? Boutique retail? A really bougie school of some sort? Whatever – how can it be an embassy without more gates, some guys out front with M-16s, and some turrets on the roof? C’mon people – don’t you know that ‘the terrorists’ are everywhere, and they hate architecture?

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My general foolishness / ignorance aside – I’m a little bit in love. And without getting into why I ‘like it’ [you can see the images – I’m sure at least some of you are feelin’ me], what’s really cool is that the project actually looks like something you’d see proposed / built in Japan – a sleek, slightly minimalist, monochromatic design [so of course ninjas love it]. What I’m wondering is – what about it is Finnish, aside from the designers? Should an embassy use architecture to convey nationalism – or should it blend with a local vernacular, and then represent it’s country of origin through content?

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Unfortunately, the global economic shitstorm [I believe that’s a technical term] has the project on hold – but the Finnish Government is still planning on building the new embassy, and is considering working with the Japanese private sector in an attempt to save some cash.

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.: Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd ->

Posted: March 19th, 2009
at 3:49pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture

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  1. Yes, Lahdelma and Mahlamäki is a wonderfull office. Second to only JKMM (another finnish office) and maybe not even to them. Go and check out their maritime museum in Kotka on their web page. Visited it already a couple of times. Can’t get enough :-). What’s finnish about the embassy? Well the modern plain look is very finnish. Our sense of beauty is very near to the sense of the japanese, so maybe it’s a bit of both, japanese and finnish. We practically went straight to modern from log cabins since before 1960-1970 most of the people lived in the country side. Most of the year is winter, so the embassy colors are just the perfect match: grey and blue tones.

    Antti

    6 Apr 09 at 4:01 am

     

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