Category: Main Library

Architectural Record, May 2013, published a Snapshot article about the Helsinki University Main Library. Architectural Record is the biggest journal concentrating purely on architecture in the USA and the whole world.

Rita Catinella Orrell: “The dramatic white interior of the University of Helsinki’s new main library, by local firm Anttinen Oiva Architects, is striking for its curving travertine-marble staircase, its Finnish furnishings, and the oval-shaped voids the architects carved out of the center of the floor plates. The rotunda brings in daylight and helps visitors grasp the building’s spatial organization at a glance. Opened to the public last September, the seven-floor urban-infill project was built on the site of an old department store in the capital’s downtown, and consolidates libraries that had previously operated in 10 different locations.”

http://archrecord.construction.com/features/snapshot/2013/1305-Helsinki-University-Library.asp

Ambassador, Mr. Bayani S. Mercado and Patrick Hilado, Minister Counsellor and Consul General at the Philippine Embassy in Oslo, Norway have donated to the Helsinki University Library copies of the original manuscripts of the novels, “El Filibusterismo” and “Noli Me Tangere” written by the Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal. These copies were officially printed by the Philippine National Historical Institute to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Rizal.

See the libraries’ exceptional opening hours on 8th and 9th of May from the website

University of Helsinki, U.S. Embassy and the American Resource Center would like to invite you to an open seminar:

Barack Obama’s Second Honeymoon: The First Hundred Days of President Obama’s Second Term in Office, and Beyond

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 09:30-15:30
Helsinki University Main Library at Kaisa House, Fabianinkatu 30, 7th floor
No advance registration. Feel free to attend your preferred sessions.

PROGRAM (see the flyer)
0930-0945   David McGuire, U.S. Embassy Helsinki
Opening of the Seminar

0945-1000  Markku Henriksson, University of Helsinki
”Honeymoons, Presidents, and  Barack Obama”

1000-1100  Vesa Kanniainen, University of Helsinki
“The Obama Economics : Economic  Constraints  from the Past, Political Constraints from Today, and Prospects for the  Future”

1100-1200  Ville Kaitila, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA
”Effects of a Transatlantic Partnership: Results from a Survey of Finnish Firms”

Break

1330-1345  Richard Schein, University of Helsinki
”Whither (or wither) Hope? Speculations on Some Cultural Promises of the Obama Presidency”

1345-1400  Rani-Henrik Andersson, University of Helsinki
”President Obama – New Hope for Native Americans?”

1400-1430  Alex Kunst, Aalto University School of Business
”Obama, the Radio Address, and His First 100 Days”

1430-1530  Anna Kronlund, University of Jyväskylä
” Executive-Legislative Relations and Obama’s Second Term”

More information
American Resource Center
Helsinki University Library
P.O.Box  53 (Fabianinkatu 30)
00014 University of Helsinki
Phone (+358-9) 191 24048
e-mail:  <mailto:arc@usembassy.fi> arc@usembassy.fi
finland.usembassy.gov/arc.html