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JKMM Architects wins the 2026 Helsinki Design Award
Helsinki Design Week, the leading design and architecture festival in the Nordic countries, along with the City of Helsinki present the 2026 Helsinki Design Award to JKMM Architects. The award recognises comprehensive and ambitious design, as well as JKMM’s active role in renewing Finnish architecture and design culture. Their work unites architecture, interior architecture, urban…
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Helsinki Design Week 2026
Helsinki Design Week takes over Helsinki from 28 August to 6 September. The 2026 theme, The Oncoming Other, invites visitors to experience encounters and shared urban spaces. The festival week marks the beginning of a two-year collaboration with the City of Helsinki to revitalize the city centre. Ticket sales and registration for festival events are…
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Helsinki Design Week 2025 brings festivities to the whole city
The largest design and architecture festival in the Nordics, Helsinki Design Week (HDW), celebrates its 20th edition from 5–15 September 2025 with the theme Festivities. The festival’s main exhibition explores the design of happiness, overseen by the internationally renowned curator Anniina Koivu. Tickets for the main events are now on sale. The main venue for…
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Helsinki Design Week’s 20th Anniversary programme announced
The main venue for Helsinki Design Week (HDW) in 2025 will be Suomitalo, located next to the Old Church Park in the heart of Helsinki. The programme includes exhibitions, discussions, launches, workshops, and evening events for design professionals and the general public. In addition to the main venue, the festival will spread across the Helsinki…
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The main venue for Helsinki Design Week is Suomitalo
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Helsinki Design Week festival (5–14 September) will open the doors of Suomitalo. This historic commercial office building, completed in 1911, is located right in the heart of the city at Lönnrotinkatu 5, by the Old Church Park (Vanha kirkkopuisto). The event will feature the Designing Happiness main exhibition,…
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Bar Unikko brightens the main venue at Helsinki Design Week
The largest design and architecture festival in the Nordics, Helsinki Design Week, will be held for the 19th time in September. This year’s main event venue is Paasivuorenkatu 3 in Hakaniemi. On the first floor of the long-closed bank hall, a bar will be built in collaboration with Marimekko. The conceptual Bar Unikko in Residence…
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New programme launched at Helsinki Design Week
Helsinki Design Week’s programme includes a pop-up bar in a former bank hall, an exhibition showcasing new materials, discussions on museum architecture – and much more. The largest design and architecture festival in the Nordic countries, Helsinki Design Week, is held annually in September. In accordance with the annual theme ‘Underneath’, the event will dive…
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Helsinki Design Week and Habitare join forces
Helsinki Design Week and Habitare join forces as creators of the future – aiming to offer one strong platform for design industry. Helsinki Design Week and Habitare are joining forces and starting an extensive and long-term collaboration. The aim is to strengthen the design industry and to promote a dialogue between designers and companies in…
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Helsinki Design Week joined design professionals
Helsinki Design Week was organized from 8 to 17 September around Helsinki city. After a few years’ break, its main exhibition collected the most relevant names in Nordic design under one roof in the Merikortteli block. Architecture and design education was highlighted in the festival programme for children and youth as well as by the…
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Helsinki Design Week’s Full Programme for 2023
The unique stories of HDW’s main exhibition, reflecting on the theme of a good everyday life, together with the numerous partner and satellite events, fall into the continuum of HDW’s narrative and this year’s theme Once upon a time. During September’s festival, the stories of the city’s creative makers will be told, and we will…
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The main venue of Helsinki Design Week 2023 is Merikortteli
The design and architecture festival Helsinki Design Week presents the city again from a new angle. This September the festival will gather people together in an industrial block of buildings, a maritime quarter full of character in the shipyard district of Punavuori. Storytelling is an important element in successful design, and Helsinki Design Week’s (8–17…
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Helsinki Design Week’s programme has been published
During Helsinki Design Week in September, a wide variety of design disciplines will be represented widely around the city and online. Through an open call, more than 100 events have been selected for the festival calendar. In accordance with its annual theme “We are open”, HDW opens up the city together with its diverse partnerships.…
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