Dead|Salminen is particularly known for his design works for the Lahti City Theater and the extension of the T2 terminal at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.
Architect Pekka Salminen has died at the age of 86. Pes-Arkitehdit explains this on their website. Salminen co-founded the company in 1968.
Salminen died in Helsinki on May 30.
Pekka Salminen was born in Tampere in 1937. He graduated in 1960 from the Tampere Technical College as a civil engineer from the architecture study line and after that he continued his studies at the Technical University.
Salminen made a prestigious career as an architect and also received the title of processor in 1998.
Strait is especially known for his design work on the expansion of the Lahti City Theater and the T2 terminal of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. In Tampere, Salminen designed, for example, the building of the Police University of Applied Sciences.
Salminen was also successful abroad and designed, for example, the Marienkirche concert hall in Neubrandenburg, Germany. Salminen has described the concert hall as the main work of his career, for which he was also awarded prizes in both Finland and Germany. Pes-Arkitehdit also reaped success especially in China, where the company has its own office in Shanghai.
Pekka Salminen was awarded the State Prize for Art in 2002. The concrete structure of the year award was awarded to Salminen four times.
of HS In the 80th anniversary interview in 2017, Salminen said that he still wanted to influence the fact that architecture and construction were better taken into account in construction.
“An architect cannot build a paradise on earth. But I dare to say that for me the purpose of architecture is to make the world a little better place.”
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Born in In Tampere on August 11, 1937.
Died At the age of 86.
Finished for a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Helsinki in 1966.
It was co-founding the architectural office Pes-arkitehdit in 1968.
Got it the title of professor in 1998.
Won several awards such as the State Prize for Art in 2002.
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