Lehtisaari, Helsinki

The Lehtisaari shopping centre was a two-floor shopping centre located in Lehtisaari, Helsinki, Finland built in 1967. It was designed by the architect Olli Kivinen who was responsible for the zoning of the area. The shopping centre activities stopped in 2023 and the building was demolished in 2025.

Didrichsen Art Museum (Finnish: Didrichsenin taidemuseo, Swedish: Didrichsens konstmuseum) is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland.

Kuusisaari (Finnish), Granö (Swedish) is an island and a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. It has the highest average income of all the Helsinki metropolitan area. Many foreign embassies are located in Kuusisaari.

Koivusaari metro station (Finnish: Koivusaaren metroasema, Swedish: Björkholmens metrostation) is a station located underwater on the Länsimetro extension of the Helsinki Metro.Although the metro station is named after Koivusaari, the westernmost island in Helsinki, it is actually located on the extreme western edge of the Lauttasaari island.

Koivusaari (Swedish: Björkholmen) is an island and a district of Helsinki, Finland. Koivusaari is the westernmost district of the entire southern part of Helsinki. Directly west from it is a bridge across the Keilalahti bay, crossing the municipality border to Espoo, after which comes Keilaniemi, the easternmost district of southern Espoo. Koivusaari metro station is a Helsinki Metro station since the Länsimetro extension 2017. It is Helsinki's westernmost metro station.

Otahalli is a sports venue in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland. It is located by the sea in Otaniemi, adjacent to the Aalto University campus.

Otaniemi Chapel (Finnish: Otaniemen kappeli, Swedish: Otnäs kapell) is a Lutheran chapel located in the Otaniemi campus of Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.

Länsiväyläjuoksu is an annual running event held in Espoo, Finland since 1976. Länsiväyläjuoksu is organised in conjunction by several private sporting clubs, and is open for everyone, both men and women, both adults and children, for a small participation fee. There are three different options available in Länsiväyläjuoksu: Long-distance run (the main Länsiväyläjuoksu event): 17.4 km Short-distance run: 6.5 km Walk: 6.2 kmAll options start and finish in Otaniemi, Espoo. From there all routes go to Tapiola, after which the short-distance run and walking routes turn back to Otaniemi. The long-distance run route goes from Tapiola to Mankkaa, then to Leppävaara and Laajalahti, crosses the municipality border to Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, then to Kuusisaari and Lehtisaari, crosses the municipality border back to Keilaniemi, Espoo and finally back to Otaniemi. Participants in the running events are given individual participant numbers and RFID tags which provide real-time recordings of their running times. Participants of the walking event do not get any individual participant identification. All participants who successfully finish any event are given a commemorative medal as a reward.

Villa Ervi is a detached residential building located on the Kuusisaari island in western Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by the architect, Professor Aarne Ervi (1910–1977) as the family residence of him and his wife, the actress Rauni Luoma. Ervi began designing it in the late 1930s, but the plan was interrupted by the breakout of the Winter War in 1939; planning permission was granted in 1943, but construction was delayed by the Continuation War. After the war, Ervi revised his plans, and changed the design from flat to a gabled roof. The design was finalised in 1950, and the building was completed in 1951. In 196s, he added an office annexe to house his design bureau; it comprises approximately half of the total floor space. At the same time, he also had a separate sauna building and an outdoor swimming pool built. The design features white surfaces, wood and other natural materials, and large windows allowing plentiful natural light to enter. The building's interior area is 545 square metres (5,870 sq ft). The plot is 0.23 hectares (0.57 acres) in size, and has a private shoreline on the Gulf of Finland. Juhana Lahti, a researcher at the Finnish Heritage Agency specialising in Ervi's work, has characterised the building as unique, architecturally important, and well preserved for a residential building. It is regarded as one of the most important post-war residential buildings in Finland. It is not, however, protected by a heritage designation: the building's owner since 1990, architect Mauri Tommila, did not wish to turn it into a 'museum', because he believes that since it was built as a family home, it should remain so.

Otaniemi (Finnish), or Otnäs (Swedish), is a district of Espoo, Finland. It is located near the border of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Otaniemi is the home of Aalto University's campus, thus "Otaniemi" is often used as a synonym for Aalto. However, several research and business facilities are also located in Otaniemi. The most prominent institutions for science and engineering in Otaniemi are the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK). Business is represented in the area by the business incubator Technopolis. In 2010, Otaniemi became home to Aalto University, formed from the merger of the Helsinki University of Technology, the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and the Helsinki School of Economics.

The Karhusaari Art Centre (originally known as Villa Sinebrychoff / Villa Karhusaari) is a Neo-Renaissance wooden villa situated on a high stone base in Karhusaari in south-eastern Espoo, Finland. It has been described as the most architecturally interesting of the 19th century villas in Espoo.Björnholm, known in Finnish as Karhusaari, is these days a north-eastern part of Westend, a large part of which is covered by the Länsiväylä highway running to the north of the art centre. Björnholma was separated for the use of Nicolas Sinebrychoff from the Hagalund manor owned by the Sinebrychoff family in 1890. The villa was designed by architect Karl August Wrede; he had returned from Italy at the time, and the Italian influence in the villa's design is clearly visible. The villa includes a special flat roof with wide eaves. The villa had once also been a small farm with its economic buildings, some of which still remain. Some of the buildings, such as the pier with its changing room were demolished when the Länsiväylä was built.Also the interior decor of the villa represents Neo-Renaissance. The ceiling paintings, the panels and the masonry heater have been artistically made.Right next to the villa there are defence walls dating back to the Crimean War.Villa Sinebrychoff played the part of a Roman villa in the melodrama Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi directed by Ossi Elstelä in 1943.

Teknologföreningen is the only student nation at the Aalto University. The only other university in Finland hosting student nations is the University of Helsinki. The Aalto University was formed in 2010 by a merger of three universities, before the merger Teknologföreningen was a student corporation of the Helsinki University of Technology. Therefore the majority of the members are students of engineering or architecture. Teknologföreningen was founded in 1872. It was the predecessor of the student union of the Helsinki University of Technology. It is also older than any other student organization at the Aalto University. Teknologföreningen's primary purpose is to unite students interested in speaking the Swedish language and to guarantee equal rights to Swedish-speaking students at the bilingual Aalto University.Teknologföreningen has its own peculiar building from 1966, named Urdsgjallar — a building that resembles the shape of a drinking horn seen from an aerial perspective, that according to legend has no two perpendicular walls. It was designed by Kurt Moberg, and it is a well-known example of Brutalist architecture in Finland. The name of the building derives from Gjallarhorn of norse mythology. The building hosts a lunch restaurant for students as well as rooms intended for work and recreational purposes. The building also hosts a semicircular sauna called "Pi" with a radius of 3.14 meters. — In 2020 it was decided to tear down the building because it is in poor condition.