news
7-8.2.2012
Hennu Kjisik speaks at the ”Flexible Buildings for Cure and Care” in Stockholm.
24.1.2012
Hennu Kjisik talks about design competitions at STAS conference in Helsinki.
23.1.2012
Laia Lara Sans, ex-employee of the Harris-Kjisik form Barcelona, visits us!
16.1.2012
Charlotte Nyholm joins the office team.
16-18.1.2012
Hennu Kjisik in Holland leading an hospital excursion for civil servants of the City of Helsinki.
9.1.2012
Trev Harris and Hennu Kjisik in Riga at the Mezaparks final seminar.
2-3.12.2011
The office's Christmas Party in Tallinn!
28-29.11.2011
Hennu Kjisik in Glasgow for the University of Strathclyde Architecture Department "Supercrit" and visiting lectures series.
14-15.11.2011
Trev Harris and Hennu Kjisik in Riga for the launching of the Mezaparks housing area project.
9.11.2011
The office's entry receives 1st prize in the invitational competition for the redevelopment of the centre of Ylöjärvi.
18.10.2011
Student group from Oulu University School of Architecture with their coordinating teacher Hennu Kjisik receives 1st prize in international student competition "Suvela Surge".
12-13.10.2011
Hennu Kjisik speaks at the EUHPN annual workshop in Bologna.
27.9.2011
Paolo Brescia of OBR Milan visits the office.
16.9.2011
A team composed of WSP, Knight Architects and Harris-Kjisik are chosen to compete against 9 other teams in the Kruunusillat international bridge competion.
9-11.9.2011
Hennu Kjisik in Alta, Norway, at Oulu School of Architecture summer school final crits.
6-8.9.2011
Hennu Kjisik teaching at the Euregio IV Master Class in Lyon, France.
6.9.2011
Henna Kemppainen returns from maternity leave. Welcome!
5.9.2011
University courses kick off again. Professor Kjisik travels weekly to Oulu and professor Harris to Otaniemi.
2.9.2011
Trev Harris speaks on Energetic Cities at Nordic Building Forum at the brand new Helsinki Music Centre.
22.8.2011
Professor Gelun from Beijing University of Architectural engineering visits the office and joins us on our outing to Suomenlinna.
19.8.2011
We post our entry for Ylöjärvi new centre competition.
19.7.2011
Hennu Kjisik as visiting critic of New York Institute of Technology Otaniemi studio.
23.6.2011
Brian Brace Taylor and Giovanni Santamaria visit the office with fifteen of their students at New York Institute of Technology.
20.6.2011
Our entry for Vaasa Palosaari harbour area competition is ready and dispatched!
14-23.6.2011
Trev Harris and Sofia de Vocht travel to Chicago and New York with students of urban design from Aalto University. Perfect ending for a spring of highrise-themed courses!
26-27.5.2011
Hennu Kjisik presents the Kotka Wellness Park Project at the international "Designing a New Hospital" conference in Jyväskylä.
27.5.2011
"Pragmatic utopias" symposium featuring Ton Venhoeven etc., organised by Trev Harris at Aalto University.
21-25.5.2011
Hennu Kjisik at Alta (Northern Norway) with students form Oulu - Urban Design Summer School.
18-19.5.2011
Our spring excursion goes to Ylöjärvi and Vaasa to check up on competition sites with architectural stops at Tampere and Seinäjoki.
16.5.2011
We welcome two new employees, Annamari Löfgren and Barbara Heier, to the office!
10.5.2011
Vernissage of Masters of Art 2011 exhibition in Helsinki. Projects by Sofia de Vocht, Ilkka Törmä and Hannu Louna exhibited. Sofia receives the Artek award for a thesis of particular merit.
21.4.2011
We finish and pack up our entry for the Lappeenranta city centre invited competition.
20.4.2011
The office is invited to take part in a limited competition for the Palosaari-Mansikkasaari area in Vaasa.
10-14.4.2011
Hennu Kjisik in Venice, Verona and Florence looking at new hospitals together with the directors of four Finnish hospital regions.
1.4.2011
Bas Molenaar of EGM Architects, Eindhoven University and UIA Public Health Group visits the office.
31.3-1.4.2011
Trev Harris in Copenhagen at Nordic Meeting of architecture schools.
28.3
Marta de Abreu Hartman is back at work after her maternity leave!
24.3
Hennu Kjisik talks about the "Power of Architecture" at the EUREGIO III Master Class in Lisbon.
17.3
Trev Harris lectures in Turku - "Turku architectural policies".
9.3
The office receives two invitations to competitions during the same day - new housing area in Vaasa and the centre of Ylöjärvi!
24.2.2011
Hennu Kjisik lectures about hospital architecture to the White Tengbom Team (designers of the New Karolinska) in Stockholm.
4.2.2011
The office has had the honour to be invited to a limited competition to design a renewal of a significant city block in the Eastern Finnish town of Lappeenranta.
2.2.2011
The telakkaranta invitational competition in the city core of Helsinki, judged by Trev harris, is won by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter A/S, Copenhagen.
14.1.2011
Hennu Kjisik and Ton Venhoeven present the final results for Kotka Wellness Park in Kotka. We are very happy with the outcome of this international collaboration.
14-18.11.2010
Trev Harris participates in an excursion to London organized Ministry of the Environment and SAFA and comes back impressed by the work done by CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) and by the Olympics 2012 area under construction.
24-26.11.2010
Hennu Kjisik presents his lecture "The Power of Architecture" in the 2nd EUREGIO III Master Class in Bratislava.
25.11.2010
Hennu Kjisik receives the Oskari Vilamo Fund doctoral thesis prize for his thesis "The Power of Architecture: Towards Better Hospital Buildings"
10.11.2010
Hennu Kjisik gives a lecture at Helsinki Forum - a seminar on healthcare and wellbeing.
15.9.2010
Hennu Kjisik dines at the Presidential Palace with no less than two presidents: one Finnish and one Beninese.
27-28.9.2010
The office travels to Estonia to participate in a healthcare seminar organized by the Sotera Institute of Aalto University.
10-15.9.2010
Alongside with a group of Finnish and Dutch healthcare specialists, the office travels to France and Holland to see the best of contemporary state-of-the-art hospital buildings.
14.09.2010
Over 20 Belgian and Dutch colleaques visit the office - they represent the ROI-project (revitalization of old industry ports).
14.09.2010
The Ylläs competition entry is finished and dispatched!
08.09.2010
Hennu Kjisik speaks at Oulu City Annual town planning seminar: "A House is like a small city and the city is like a big house"
06.09.2010
Members of the British-based Academy of Urbanism visit the office.
04-09.09.2010
Trev Harris represents Aalto University School of Architecture at the annual conference for Heads of Architecture schools, in Hania, Crete.
20.08.2010
Eric Parry, The Royal Academy/RIBA, visits the office.
20.08.2010
Trev Harris starts judging the Telakkaranta invitational competition.
01.08.2010
Hennu Kjisik officially starts as professor at Oulu School of Architecture.
17-18.8.2010
First Kotka Wellness Park design meetings at the office and in Kotka. Ton Venhoeven, Bas Römgens and Karin Imoberdorf join the office team.
11.07.2010
World Cup Final. Henna Kemppainen has won the office forecast competition by getting three of the four semi-finalists right!
06-09.06.2010
Hennu Kjisik at the "Architecture of Hospitals" conference in Rotterdam, where he gives a presentation.
01.06.2010
In collaboration with VenhoevenCS from Amsterdam, the office wins the commission for Kotka Wellness Park (feasibility and master planning phase).
30.06.2010
The office has moved: two floors down and across the corridor! You will find us nowadays at Kalevankatu 31 a 5.
26.05.2010
Sofia de Vocht and Hannu Louna represent the office at the victory ceremony for the Vaajakoski Competition in which we receive honourable mention.
19-28.05.2010
Trev Harris leads Aalto University excursion to Istanbul and ancient sites on the Turkish west coast.
06-07.05.2010
Trevor Harris participates in the meeting of Nordic Architecture schools in Bergen, Norway
22.04.2010
The office joins in the celebrations of the "official" retirement of Jukka Syvälahti, our long-time traffic design collaborator.
21.04.2010
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki are declared winners of Kastelli School competition, judged by Hannu Kjisik, in Oulu.
05.03.-14.03.2010
Hennu Kjisik organises 'City in Crisis' course workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
04.03.2010
Kuninkaankolmio Ring Road II development project starts with a workshop led by Harris-Kjisik and Trafix.
03.03.2010
The appointment of Hennu Kjisik as proferror at Oulu School of Architecture is confirmed.
05.02.2010
Raisio invitational competition deadline - our entry is ready and dispatched!
03.02.2010
Aga Khan -award winner Francis Kéré visits the office.
29.01.2010
Joint victory for WSP and White Architects in Mustasaari competition judged by Hennu Kjisik.
15.01.2010
Trev Harris gives an invited lecture and a workshop critique in Austria at TU Wien.
04.12.2009
Harris-Kjisik receives honourable mention in the invitational competition for Koli National Park Activity and Service Centre! After the ceremony we fly to Helsinki and hurry to the "Small Offices" Christmas Party which is held for the 25th time.
20-28.11.2009
Hennu Kjisik participates in the 10th anniversary of Villa Karo in Grand Popo, Benin.
05.11.2009
Trev Harris lectures and conducts the audience of the rendition of 'Happy Birthday' at the 75th anniversary of the Finnish Association of Civil Engineers.
21.10.2009
Professor Anna Rubbo (Sydney University) of ”Global Studio” fame visits the office
14.10.2009
Start of Raisio invitational competition.
09.10.2009
Hennu Kjisik successfully defends his doctoral dissertation “The Power of Architecture - towards better hospital buildings” at Helsinki University of Technology.
08.-11.09.2009
Trev Harris, Hennu Kjisik, Marta Abreu, Ilkka Törmä and Sofia de Vocht with leading Vantaa politicians, civil servants and planners at town planning excursion in the Netherlands.
04.09.2009
Hennu Kjisik gives a presentation “Healthcare 2025” at EUPHN masterclass at Semmelweiss University, Budapest.
24.08.2009
Kick-off meeting of commission for “Lahti-visions”.
10.08.2009
Opening seminar for invitational competition for holiday centre in Koli.
17.06.2009
Hennu Kjisik, as judge appointed by the competitors, starts jury work at Mustasaari.
10.-11.06.2009
Hennu Kjisik acts as visiting critic at diploma work final reviews at EPFL, Lausanne.
04.06.2009
Hennu Kjisik acts as external examiner at diploma work reviews at Strathclyde School of Architecture, Glasgow.
28.05.2009
Trev Harris presents the winning entry and the work of Harris-Kjisik at the InnoUrb Conference in Oulu, finishing his work as an appointed judge selected by the competitors at the international invitational competition of Toppilansalmi area, Oulu.
25.05.2009
Hennu Kjisik talks about the office’s urban projects in Kiev, at a seminar organized by the Finnish an Ukrainian Housing Ministries.
15.-24.05.2009
Trev Harris leads an excursion to Andalusia and Southern Portugal at HUT Department of Architecture.
29.04.2009
The office’s entry “Parabrisas” receives second prize in the competition for the new Ranta-Tampella housing area in Tampere.