there is three parts to pasila. länsi (west), keski (central) and itä (east). the west part is primarily apartments (i live in one of them) and also some office blocks. east has office blocks and apartments aswell. in the middle then is keski pasila which has train tracks and a train station.

in a few years the harbour will be moved so some of those train tracks wont be needed thus freeing up a lot of keski pasila for redevelopment. two masterplans were submitted. one by one of finlands largest offices, tuomo siitonen arkkitehtitoimisto and the second by the italian office cino zucchi architetti.

images from both were published in the helsingin sanomat about ten days ago. i never got around to mentioning them on here due to laziness. today i did a few searches and i found lots and lots of information about it.

this picture is from zucchi’s submission. it shows the area from the air. i’ve added some notes to a bigger version which you can see here or by clicking on the image

there are lots and lots more pictures of the two submissions here on the skyscrapercity.com website.

further links (links go to the helsinki planning department)
:cino zucchi’s outline plan (pictures) [70 mb]
:cino zucchi’s outline plan (text) [185 mb]
:siitonen’s outline plan [133 mb]