Tampere Travel and Service Center Design Winning By COBE and Lunden, Finland

Tampere Travel and Service Center Design winning by COBE and Lunden, Finland is about that recently The Mayor of Tampere has announced Danish architects COBE and Finnish Lunden Architecture as winners of an international competition for the Tampere Travel and Service Center Design. The winning scheme, “Reconnecting Tampere” will join two disparate districts in the heart of Finland’s second largest city and establish a “new urban living room” beneath an expansive steel canopy.

Travel and Service Center Design Layout

Tampere Travel and Service Center Design Background:

The commission will also include a master plan for the areas surrounding the rail yard. A new cinema, retail shops and boutiques, as well as housing and new office spaces will all be incorporated into the plan. Large circular openings in the deck structure will give the visitors a good overview of the station below, and establish an easily understandable station area.

”Tampere’s new Travel and Service Center Design has not only the potential to become a gateway to Tampere and the rest of Finland, but also the potential of becoming a generator for the future development of the urban center of Tampere,” says Dan Stubbergaard, Founder and Creative Director of COBE.

“The vision, ”ReConnecting Tampere”, introduces an inter modal transportation hub in the heart of the city as well as a development plan for uniting the city center. By introducing a diverse urban structure that extends from the east to west across the rail yard, the project provides a solid and robust foundation for unifying the two sides of Tampere’s city center once and for all.”

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Fact File of Tampere Travel and Service Center Design:

Location: Tampere, Finland
Client: City of Tampere, Finnish Transport Agency, VR-Group and Senate Properties
Program: New Travel and Service Center for the City of Tampere, as well as a masterlplan for the areas surrounding the railyard in Tampere
Size: 120.000 m2
Status: 1st prize in competition 2014, on-going
Collaborators: Lunden Architecture, Ramboll Finland, Newsec
Team: Dan Stubbergaard, Eik Bjerregaard, Ted Schauman, Maja Halle, Andy Minchev.

Tampere Travel and Service Center design has not only the potential to become a gateway to Tampere and the rest of Finland, but also the potential of becoming a generator for the future development of the urban center of Tampere.

The vision, “ReConnecting Tampere”, introduces an intermodal transportation hub in the heart of the city as well as a development plan for uniting the city center. By introducing a diverse urban structure that extends from the east to west across the rail yard, the project provides a solid and robust foundation for unifying the two sides of Tampere’s city center once and for all.