10.1.2024
Temppeliaukio Church is the church of the Töölö parish in Helsinki. The building was completed in 1969. The church, built into excavated bedrock, was designed by Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen. Thanks to its acoustic properties, the church is a popular venue for concerts. The church is built into the bedrock and is accessed directly from street level without climbing any stairs. The free-form, oval-shaped church hall is bathed in daylight, thanks to a skylight of varying width between the rock wall and the dome. The skylight has 180 radial beams of different lengths supporting the dome. Both the beams and the supporting structure of the dome are made of reinforced concrete. The dome is the only mathematical form in the hall. Read more.
Temppeliaukio Church is the church of the Töölö parish in Helsinki. The building was completed in 1969. The church, built into excavated bedrock, was designed by Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen. Thanks to its acoustic properties, the church is a popular venue for concerts. The church is built into the bedrock and is accessed directly from street level without climbing any stairs. The free-form, oval-shaped church hall is bathed in daylight, thanks to a skylight of varying width between the rock wall and the dome. The skylight has 180 radial beams of different lengths supporting the dome. Both the beams and the supporting structure of the dome are made of reinforced concrete. The dome is the only mathematical form in the hall. Read more.