Since mid March friends of fashion and food have been pampered by design hotel Klaus K with its fashion brunches that caress your sense of taste! Already in fall 2010 Klaus K’s restaurant Ilmatar launched the event where well known fashion from Helsinki’s Design District is combined with Finnish food in the form of a [...]

The new Michelin Guide Main Cities of Europe 2011, published on the 16th of March 2011, brought Helsinki a new Michelin star as the restaurant Olo received the recognition. Restaurant Olo is specialized in modern Nordic cuisine. The Michelin guide ranks restaurants and hotels in the 20 largest cities in Europe. The French tire manufacturer [...]

World Design Capital (WDC) Helsinki 2012 believes that World Design Capital looks just like you. Or your grandmother, nephew, exchange student friend, the caretaker at your office… you tell us! WDC Helsinki 2012 is now looking for people of all ages to model in photo shoots to take place in all WDC Helsinki 2012 cities [...]

The city of Helsinki elected the 28th of February 2011 a new project manager called Ville Relander, who will lead the realisation of the city’s food culture strategy. The working place for this manager will be the wholesale food market in Kalasatama. Relander has earlier been working as the CEO of local food shop Anton&Anton [...]

CNN´s quadripartite Future Cities Series is a great advertisement for the city.

Now you have a chance to see how beauty, functionality and durability are tied to each other in the exhibition. The state has been involved in an active and wide-ranging manner in building and development. It has significantly steered the evolution of the urban fabric and Finnish society. The beginning of state building activities can [...]

Helsinki’s live music assortment has gotten once again wider since the internationally recognized design hotel Klaus K launched Ahjo’s Marmalade club, a new live music concept for music and club lovers. The mastermind behind it all, Jan Simons, musician and producer based in Stockholm, has already for a long time co-operated with the most famous [...]

How has the Helsinki cityscape changed? And how have housing, work, free time, schooling etc. changed for the Helsinkians over the past hundred years? The 100th anniversary exhibition of the department by the name of City of Helsinki Urban Facts will show how the capital and the life of its citizens have changed. The changes [...]

Rug washers have always aroused great interest among tourists. Many sightseeing buses slow down or even stop at them, and enthusiastic foreigners have taken innumerable photos of the piers and rug washers to show to the people at home. The exhibition presents architecture students’ ideas for new uses for rug washing piers. Rug washing piers [...]

The “Crab Attack” exhibition with exciting crabs from all over the world.