Article source: ALA Architects Ltd

ALA Architects has now completed the renovation and expansion of the modernist Kuopio City Theatre designed in the 1960s by architects Helmer Stenros and Risto-VeikkoLuukkonen.

Image Courtesy © Tuomas Uusheimo

• Architects: ALA Architects Ltd
• Project: Kuopio City Theatre
• Location: Kuopio, Finland
• Photography: Tuomas Uusheimo
• Architect: ALA Architects Ltd.: Partners Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, JanneTeräsvirta and Samuli Woolston with HeikkiRiitahuhta, Toni Laurila, Pekka Sivula, Harri Ahokas, Petra Grisova, Vladimir Ilic, AuvoLindroos and JyriTartia
• Collaborators: Insinööritoimisto Tanskanen (structural engineering), Granlund Kuopio (HVAC), Insinööritoimisto Tauno Nissinen (electrical engineering), City of Kuopio Survey Division (geo planning), Blue Node (theater technics), NCC Construction (construction)
• Client: City of Kuopio
• Type: Commission, 2010
• Program: Renovation of the 1960’s theater 8,025 m², expansion including a new studio stage 3,467 m²
• Status: Building handed in in June 2014, theater re-opened in September 2014
• Software used: AutoCAD Architecture and Rhinoceros 3D

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