The preparations for the Housing Fair 2012 have been successfully completed in Tampere, and the Fair is now open for the public. The Housing Fair 2012 in Tampere was opened on the 13th of July by Minister Mr Jukka Gutsfsson, Mr. Eero Heinäluoma, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament and Mr. Bruce Orec, the US Ambassador to […]
Housing Fair in Kokkola 2011 is running (www.asuntomessut.fi/en/housing-fairs). Arrangements have gone according to the plans. Minister of finance, Jutta Urpilainen, opened the Housing Fair in Kokkola 15th July. The opening reception and the lunch reception, hosted by the undersigned, were honored also by the speaker of the parliament Eero Heinäluoma and the minister of finance […]
Why do families enter to a huge project to build up a house of their own? What are the motivators? What do they think about the prefebricated house producers? How does the industry manage to serve customer’s expectations? Pls find attached my Master thesis of the subject. Title of thesis: Building a home of one‘s […]
I had a great opportunity to visit the Shanghai World Fair in China on September 10-15, 2010. My condensed report describes some of the experiences and feelings that the visit generated. Shanghai World Fair Report 10-15 Sept. 2010 online publication
I am an architect and while studying, we were taught that architects do good. For me that is the same as creating good living environments. I must immediately confess one of the pitfalls that architects fall into, or maybe just my personal shortcoming: We often make generalisations based on a belief of the omnipotence of […]
The 2010 Housing Fair was wrapped up. Amongst Housing Fair visitors on the last day were Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister of Economic Affairs and Markku Rossi, MP. The preliminary results from the visitor feed-back survey indicate that 93 percent of the visitors were either happy or very happy with the Fair. The total number of visitors […]
Jenni Kauhanen and Teemu Krutsin with their baby stepped through the Fair entrance gates on Saturday, the 14th of August, 2010. They received the fair catalogues with a summery surprise package as well as free entrance to the Fair with meals and drinks.Kauhanen and Krutsin live in Kuopio but had been travelling a lot during […]
Minister of Housing Jan Vapaavuori and aids visited the Housing Fair. The Minister was accompanied by Special Adviser Tatu Rauhamäki, Communications Officer Riikka Lamminmäki, Political Secretary Anna Cristina Niesvaara, Special Adviser’s secretary Niina Helenius and the Minister’s secretary Iina Kankainen. The Minister’s party brought with them a much needed rain shower to cool off the […]
On 5 August 2010, the huhdredthousandth visitor stepped through the main entrance gate. Sirja Aalto and Peter Timmermans with children Olivia and Felix were pleasantly surprised by the festive reception when they arrived on a sunny summer day from Loppi at the Housing Fair 2010. Pasi Heiskanen, Managing Director of the Finnish Housing Fair with […]