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Helsinki Music Centre Turns to Abloy for Locks and Door Opening Solutions

Planning the locks was a major undertaking as the building has 1,600 doors

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Designing a locking and door opening solution for the new 1,600-door Helsinki Music Centre in Töölönlahti, Helsinki, was no simple task, but ASSA ABLOY rose to the challenge. A total of 243 designs were submitted for the Helsinki Music Centre building, in a competition won by Turku-based architects Laiho-Pulkkinen-Raunio with a proposal titled “A Mezza Voce.” The music center’s 38,600 square meters of space are distributed between eight floors – four below ground and four above. It was a very...

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