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Ulla Passoja has been appointed CEO of UKI Arkkitehdit, effective August 16, 2024.

Sustainable development is continuously improving operation. The world cannot be saved at a stroke, but by proceeding patiently towards the goal one thing at a time.

UKI Arkkitehdit believes that people are the heart of work communities and workspaces are the home of the work community.

Sama arvomaailma vauhditti kahden perinteisen laatutoimiston yhdistymistä. Fuusiossa syntyy vahva keskisuomalainen toimija, joka työllistää noin 20 arkkitehtisuunnittelun ammattilaista.

UKI Arkkitehdit has acquired nine new partners. They are Mika Avela, Marjaana Harjapää, Mikko Kaira, Hanna Kangas, Vesa-Pekka Kiiskinen, Mika Nieminen, Ari Ronkainen, Meri Ruuskanen and Timo Vihtkari, who work in responsible roles in customer projects.

The project plan of the new ward building in the HUS Jorvi hospital has been completed. Consult group Triangle, consisting of designers from three architecture offices, has been busy on the plan from autumn.

The position is new in the company. In management, Passoja emphasises staff motivation and maintaining working capacity in creative work.

Vesa-Pekka believes strongly in the architecture of cooperation and brings more chief designer and project leader competence to UKI Arkkitehdit.

We have already received plenty of summer trainee applications and we wish that all job applications are sent directly to our recruitment system.

In September the completion of new buildings was celebrated in Tampere first in international My Optimal Hospital conference and one week later the D building’s main entrance and lobby were opened.

The Minister of Development and Trade of Finland Ville Skinnari received a solid package of information regarding North Finnish Construction Cluster’s international visions and the user-driven design method VALO™ during his visit at the UKI Arkkitehdit office building in Oulu.

In early 2019, Arknova merged into UKI Arkkitehdit. Since last year the number of employees has grown rapidly in Helsinki, so the new office premises were a necessity.

The city of Vaasa, Peab Oy and Yrjö & Hanna Foundation organized an architectural competition to design a communal block to Ravilaakso, Vaasa, in which three different architectural offices were invited. The jury chose UKI Arkkitehdit as the winner of the competition.

Metsä Group's Pro Nemus Visitor Center, designed by UKI Arkkitehdit, received the Exemplary Building of the year 2018 award at the Jyväskylä Building Fair. Metsä Group's Pro Nemus Visitor Center, designed by UKI Arkkitehdit, received the Exemplary Building of the year 2018 award at the Jyväskylä Building Fair.

The Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District, the designers and contractors have signed an updated version of the alliance contract for the first phase of Future Hospital OYS 2030 renewal programme.

UKI Arkkitehdit Oy's design won the bidding competition of the Jokiranta School in Kiiminki, where UKI Arkkitehdit collaborated with the Oulu-based contest winner Rakennusteho Oy.

UKI Arkkitehdit has been awarded joint 1st prize in the design competition for the City Garden in Turku.

UKI Arkkitehdit turned sixty and published a celebratory book featuring the designs over the past decade. In September 2018, the staff of UKI went on a celebratory excursion to Lisbon, Portugal.

UKI Arkkitehdit is part of the work consortium founded for planning the construction of the new Laakso Hospital in Helsinki.

The two working units of UKI Arkkitehdit will merge in the start of the year 2019.

60-year old UKI’s CEO Mikko Heikkinen reflects on the past, the present and the future of the company.

Finnish technology, strategy and design company Solita Oy welcomed their new office spaces during the summer.

Laakso Hospital’s principal and architectural design was sealed by a contract between a work consortium team LATU, the city of Helsinki and HUS (Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa).

The health centre, located at Kirkkotie in Kempele, was originally completed in the late 1980’s. The building served its users without any major renovations until the extension and renovation begun in 2015.

Pro Nemus visitor centre located in Metsä Group’s bioproduct mill area in Äänekoski was inaugurated on 12.6.2018. Pro Nemus is a 1000 square meter exhibition building with wooden structure, which was designed and built in 2016-2018.

UKI Arkkitehdit’s proposal Oihonna won shared first prize in Inkoonranta invitational architecture competition in Inkoo.

Summer job application period has ended. Thank you for summer trainee applications!

Designing the new Chydenius school building in Kokkola has started at UKI Arkkitehdit. The new Swedish-speaking primary school for 320 pupils will be designed and implemented as a turnkey contract in cooperation with Peab Oy, and its completion is targeted at October 2019.

Oululainen arkkitehtitoimisto UKI Arkkitehdit Oy on ostanut niin ikään oululaisen Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Romppainen Oy:n liiketoiminnan. Toimistot ovat useiden vuosien ajan tehneet läheistä yhteistyötä. Toissa vuonna ne jo yhdistivät voimiaan solmimalla yhteistyösopimuksen, joka koski ennen kaikkea suuria aluekehityshankkeita.

UKI congratulates Helsinki-based As Oy Satakallio for shared 1st price on Finnish Façade Association’s Façade Renovation 2017-competition! Arkkitehtitoimisto Arknova, a member of UKI group, was responsible for the principal and architectural design of the project.

UKI Arkkitehdit Oy was one of the three participants invited to the architectural competition arranged by the City of Oulu, the Organisation for Respiratory Health in Finland and Rakennusteho Group Oy. The goal was to find a basic proposal for the infill development and town plan change of Lasaretinsaari in Oulu.

UKI Arkkitehdit Oy expands its partner base. All six new partners are architects working in the company: Raija-Liisa Miesmaa, Pauli Koivisto, Kimmo Turpeenniemi, Teuvo Tuorila, Ulla Passoja and Timo Tyynismaa.

UKI Arkkitehdit Oy’s entry Punos has been awarded joint 1st prize in the architectural invitation competition for the Käräjätörmä multi-generation community village in Tampere.

Architectural firm UKI Arkkitehdit Oy from Oulu makes a stronger investment in entering the design market of the metropolitan area. With the newly concluded deal, the company has acquired possession of Arkkitehtitoimisto Arknova Oy, which has been operating in Helsinki for a long time. The deal is part of the strategy of the Oulu-based company to purposefully expand operations on the Oulu-Jyväskylä-Helsinki axis.

The ”Elo” proposal by Uki arkkitehdit was awarded in the open architectural competition for the Törnävä hospital area in Seinäjoki.

Järvenpää’s new social and health centre JUST is the world’s best information model -based building project in public buildings.

With the cooperation agreement signed last Friday, our offices join forces in designing significant regional development projects.