K2S Architects Ltd

K2S Architects Ltd. was founded in Helsinki in 2001 by Kimmo Lintula (Helsinki, 1970), Niko Sirola (Tampere, 1971) and Mikko Summanen (Lappeenranta, 1971). All partners studied at Helsinki University of Technology and have also been teaching there. The office has won multiple architecture competitions, most notably the design for a hospital in Espoo and an IT-college in the town of Sipoo. The office has received an Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award (highly commended), the Finnish steel prize and a Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award. Two projects have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe prize. When talking about architecture, we always talk about roots. The Finnish word for roots, "juuret", has grown into a new meaning for us: it is a term that defines good architecture. Roots can exist in anything – music, art or people. In architecture we see four different meanings for the term. First, and perhaps most ....

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