Architect
Pitkänen-Laiho-Raunio Architects
Completion
1984
Gross area
5100 m²
Category
Office buildings
Tags
administration office park plaster tile

The Government Office Building is situated at the crossing of Storagatan and Torggatan, opposite the Town Hall park, in the town centre of Mariehamn in Åland.

The untouched part of the site and the parking area are both on different levels, the latter shielded from view by the building itself. The building is in a yellowish tile and plastering, like many of the commercial buildings along the main street Storagatan. The public status of the building at the end of the main street is underlined with its location in the streetscape and the scale of the building.

The building houses the government offices and is the administrative centre of the Åland autonomous community. Turku based architects Pekka Pitkänen, Ola Laiho and Ilpo Raunio, designed the office building.

Source: Finnish Architectural Review 6/1984

Location

Strandgatan 37, Mariehamn
60.09701576, 19.94229772

Images

East elevation, Mariehamn Government Office Building
East elevation, Mariehamn Government Office Building (© Ola Laiho / MFA)
South elevation, Mariehamn Government Office Building
South elevation, Mariehamn Government Office Building (© Ola Laiho / MFA)
North elevation, Mariehamn Government Office Building
North elevation, Mariehamn Government Office Building (© Ola Laiho / MFA)
Original interior, Mariehamn Government Office Building
Original interior, Mariehamn Government Office Building (© Ola Laiho / MFA)
Original interior, Mariehamn Government Office Building
Original interior, Mariehamn Government Office Building (© Ola Laiho / MFA)
Site plan, Mariehamn Government Office Building
Site plan, Mariehamn Government Office Building (© Pitkänen-Laiho-Raunio Architects)
1st floor, Mariehamn Government Office Building
1st floor, Mariehamn Government Office Building (© Pitkänen-Laiho-Raunio Architects)

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