Helsinki Central Library Oodi


The Helsinki Central Library Oodi, commonly referred to as Oodi, is a public library in Helsinki, Finland, inaugurated on December 5, 2018. The library is situated in the Töölönlahti district next to Helsinki Music Centre and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.

History

A design competition in 2012 to build the library was won by the Finnish architectural firm ALA Architects and structural design by Ramboll Finland. ALA Architects won the commission over 543 other competitors. The library was planned to be a three-story building and to include a sauna and a ground floor movie theatre. In January 2015, the Helsinki City Council voted 75-8 to launch the building project. The estimated costs of the new library was 98 million euros, of which the state agreed to pay 30 million in connection with the centenary of Finland's independence in 2017. The City of Helsinki budgeted 66 million euros for the building.
On December 31, 2016, it was announced that the new library would be named in Finnish as Oodi and in Swedish as Ode. The library was built in the Töölönlahti district next to Helsinki Music Centre and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and inaugurated on December 5, 2018 on the eve of the Finnish Independence Day.
Specially designed robots transport books to the third of the area designated for books. The rest of the space is designed for meeting and doing.
announcing their Government Programme at Oodi, June 2019

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