Architect:
Hyvämäki-Karhunen-Parkkinen Architects
Eero Hyvämäki, Tuula Mäkinen, Kari Piela, Antti Laiho
Client / Construction Management:
National Board of Public Building
Structural Engineering:
Mikko Vahanen Engineers
Electrical and Telecommunications
design:
J. W. Majurinen Engineers
Interior Design:
foyer, office and workshop spaces:
Antti Paatero Interior Architects
Interior Design / performer's
areas:
Anita Karhunen Interior Designers
Landscape Design:
Ympäristötoimisto Oy - Miljöbyrån Ab
Acoustic Design:
Alpo Halme Architects
Interior Construction and
Foundation,
Excavation and Landscape Contractor:
YIT-Yhtymä Oy
HVA-Contractor:
LVI-Karjalainen Oy
Stage Electrical Contractor:
Are Oy
Building Controls:
Landis & Staefa Finland
Rendering, plastering and
painting contractor:
Esko Nurminen Painting Co.
Telecommunications Contractor:
Helsinki Telephone Co
Lifts:
Kone Oy
The new opera house contains all necessary facilities for both rehearsing and performing opera and ballet. The entrance hall and lobby form a series of glass wall modules with a direct view over Töölönlahti bay and Hesperia Park. The lobby can be used separately for exhibitions, concerts and other public functions.
The warm coloured wooden surfaces of the auditorium create an intimacy which brings the audience close to the performers. The auditorium layout and acoustics of the studio theatre called Alminsali, can also be adjusted to provide for small-scale experimental performances which would be impossible to arrange on the main stage.