Studio AK Competitors

We excel and make breakthroughs in and across science, art, technology and business. We renew our society with research-based knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurial mindset. Aalto University has been ranked the 7th best young university in the world (Top 50 under 50, QS 2018) and one of the world’s top technology challenger universities (THE 2017), thinking outside the box on research collaboration, funding and innovation. Aalto has six schools with 20 000 students and 5 000 employees of which close to 450 are professors. Our campus is located in Espoo, Finland. With over 50% of our academic faculty coming from outside Finland, we are a highly international community with strong academic standing. At Aalto, high-quality research, art, education and entrepreneurship are promoted hand in hand. Disciplinary excellence is combined with multidisciplinary activities, engaging both students and the local innovation ecosystem. Our main campus is quickly transforming into an open collaboration hub that encourages encounters between students, researchers, industry, startups and other partners. With an exceptionally strong entrepreneurial community, 70-100 new companies are born in our ecosystem every year. Aalto University was founded in 2010 as three leading Finnish universities, Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki, were merged to strengthen Finland’s innovative capability.

The Design Museum was founded in 1873 originally as the Museum of Applied Arts and as a teaching collection of craft and design. Design Museum is an internationally operating museum and an international meeting place of design that maintains the Finnish national collection of design. Design Museum is a specialist museum that has a collection of 75 000 pieces and over 40 000 drawings and sketches. The museum is responsible for research and documentation in its field, and for holding exhibitions on design history and contemporary themes. The museum organizes international touring exhibitions and events on Finnish art and design. Design Museum is a member of ICOM. Besides main premises at Design Museum Helsinki, other venues operated by the Design Museum are Design Museum Arabia, Design Museum Iittala and Design Museum Nuutajärvi. The Design Museum has operated in its current premises (formerly Brobergska Mixed School) since 1978.

ALA Architects Ltd is a Helsinki based architecture firm founded by Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, Janne Teräsvirta and Samuli Woolston in 2005. ALA believes in beauty created in a practical, efficient and analytical design approach. The base of the work is in profound understanding of design and construction- ability to build for real. The goal is to find the real potentials and problems inherent in every task and to create on them. ALA operates internationally developing new solutions from conceptual studies through urban design to products and finished construction details. The office co-operates with other disciplines to reach the best solutions for every detail. The client is kept closely involved in the process from the start. ALA has won several prizes and honorary mentions in Finnish and international architecture competitions.