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The Panorama Tower (previously known as Signaali Headquarters) is a high-rise building in Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland located at Hevosenkenkä 3. It is the third highest building in Espoo and the third-highest office building in Finland after the Accountor Tower and the Maamerkki building in Itäkeskus, Helsinki. The building is a three-sided office building with the sides attached to each other. Of the three sides, two have seven floors and one has seventeen floors.

Leppävaara station (Finnish: Leppävaaran rautatieasema, Swedish: Alberga järnvägsstation) is a railway station located in Leppävaara, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is located about 11 kilometres (7 mi) to the northwest of Helsinki Central.

The Leppävaara tower is a high-rise building in Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland, located at Valurinkuja 2. The building is located right next to the Leppävaara railway station and the Sello shopping centre. The building is 68 metres tall and has 21 floors. It is the third highest residential building in Espoo after Niittyhuippu and Meritorni.

Perkkaa (Swedish: Bergans) is a neighbourhood in the district of Leppävaara in Espoo, Finland. On New Year 2017 the population of the neighbourhood was 3836. The name of the neighbourhood comes from the Bergans farm that used to be located in the area. Perkkaa is located inside the Kehä I beltway, bordering the beltway to the west, the Rantarata train line to the north, the district of Pitäjänmäki in Helsinki to the east and the Finnish national road 1 to the south. Services in Perkkaa include a school, a university of applied sciences, a citizens' park and many kindergartens. The area also has a grocery store. As well as residential houses, Perkkaa includes office buildings such as the Stella Business Park, the Polaris Business Park and the Upseerin avec office building. The Vermo race track is also located in Perkkaa. The streets in Perkkaa are named after military terms, including for example military ranks from colonel to sergeant. Most of the apartments in Perkkaa were built in the 1970s and 1990s. Most of the apartments are located in multi-story apartment buildings.

Sello (Finnish for cello) is a shopping mall in the Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The mall contains more than 170 shops and services including a concert hall and a library. The largest stores in the shopping center are Prisma, K-Citymarket, Power, Tokmanni, Halonen, H&M, and Intersport Megastore. The Sello is separated into three parts: the oldest part (finished in 2002), the second part (finished in 2005) and the newest part (finished in 2008). The oldest part of Sello has two hypermarkets, three banks, contains Espoo City's main library, a concert hall, gym, restaurants and cafes, pharmacy, an Alko and a music academy. The second part of Sello has many restaurants and smaller stores, and multiple sport stores such as Intersport and Stadium. Sello's third and newest part was designed to have a movie theater, several restaurants and a bowling alley. Sello also has a hotel named Hotel Sello, property of the Palace Kämp Group. It is served by Leppävaara bus station and Leppävaara railway station immediately to the north, with Ring I running just to the east. On 31 December 2009, five people were killed during a shooting spree in the mall.

The Sello mall shooting occurred on the morning of 31 December 2009 shortly after 10:08 local time at the Prisma hypermarket in Sello mall, located in the Leppävaara district of Espoo, Finland. Ibrahim Shkupolli, who was born in Yugoslavia but had lived in Finland for many years, shot three men and one woman who all worked at Prisma. Before the shooting, he had killed his ex-girlfriend at her home. After the shooting, Shkupolli left the mall and killed himself in his own apartment. The Sello mall, which opened in 2003, is the largest in the Nordic region with over 170 stores. On the day of the shooting the mall contained between two and three thousand customers. Witnesses described the gunman as calm when walking out of the grocery store in the mall immediately after the shooting.

Galleria is a shopping centre in the district of Leppävaara in Espoo, Finland. It is located north of the Turuntie highway in northern Leppävaara. The ground floor has a grocery store, a café and a restaurant, while the second floor has services for wellbeing, the largest of which being a health club and a dance centre.The shopping centre was completed in 1985 and was renovated from 2011 to 2012. The Läkkitori square in front of it was renovated from 2013 to 2015. After the square had been completed, it had gradually lost its forum-like nature as trade on it diminished. The square became a restless space and its surface became warped.The shopping centre was designed by architect Kalevi Ruokosuo. The ornamental building with its 40-metre illuminated mast was first met with resistance at the facade board of the city of Espoo. The building was originally designed as a merchant department store collectively owned by its merchants, and the businesses inside it were located next to each other without intermediate walls, like the departments in a department store. Original tenants in the ground floor included a grocery store with a surface area of one thousand square metres, a restaurant, a confectionery business, a plant shop and two bank offices. The second floor held businesses for special needs. The interior decoration used many plants and fountains.The site of the shopping centre originally hosted a paddock for horses during the Russian fortification for World War I from 1915 to 1917, followed by allotment gardens during World War II and a sports field after that. There is a plaque on the wall of the Leppävaara health centre commemorating the local history before the construction of the health centre and the shopping centre.The Sello mall was later built on the other side of the rails, which has significantly reduced the number of customers in Galleria. Several suggestions have been put forth for Galleria to be demolished and residential and commercial buildings to be built in its place. The city of Espoo started soliciting architectural proposals for the area in May 2022.

Perkkaanpuiston Montessorikoulu (Finnish for "Perkkaanpuisto Montessori School") was a school unit within a public school offering for the very first time in Finland proper primary school classes using the Montessori method of teaching. The school unit was run by the city of Espoo. Prior to the opening of the school unit, the Montessori method had only been used in preschools. The school was first founded as a separate Montessori subdivision of the primary school in Lintuvaara, Espoo. In the middle 1980s it moved to its own building in Perkkaa, Espoo. The school building was a mint green wooden one-storey building divided into a large central "living room", two main classrooms and a teachers' area. The school housed all six classes of the Finnish primary school (ala-aste) system. Because of the low number of students — only about 30 in the entire school — the classrooms were divided among the classes so that classes 1—3 had one room and classes 4—6 had another. The students also had free access to the teachers' area during breaks. The central "living room" housed the school library and the school's pets: a couple of guinea pigs and some budgerigars. The school building had to be torn down because of the mildew infested in the wooden walls in the late 1990s. A new standard (non-Montessori) school was built in its place and the Montessori classes moved to the Ruusutorppa primary school (Ruusutorpan ala-aste).

Postipuu School is a primary school in Espoo, Finland. It consists pre-school, primary and secondary school level. There are around 250 pupils and 45 staff members at Postipuu. The pupils represent many different nationalities, as do the staff members. Since 2016, the school principal has been Anne Suomala.

EVTEK University of Applied Sciences (formerly Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology or Espoon-Vantaan teknillinen ammattikorkeakoulu in Finnish, abbr. EVTEK) was one of Finland's applied science polytechnics. In August 2008, EVTEK University of Applied Sciences together with Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia merged into Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.EVTEK University of Applied Sciences offered degree programs in technology, business and art & design leading to either a bachelor's or master's degree.

The Villa Elfvik nature house is an environmental education centre in Espoo, Finland, directed at all residents of Espoo. The nature house offers information about nature and the environment in all forms. Jugend style Villa Elfvik was designed by the architect Mauritz Gripenberg. The construction project finished in 1904. The villa was built to be a home for baroness Elvira Standertskjöld.Villa Elfvik is located in Laajalahti near the seashore, between the commercial centres of Tapiola and Leppävaara.

Lintuvaara (Finnish) or Fågelberga (Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland.Located by a forest, Lintuvaara is known as a quiet suburban area with most of the buildings there being either low density row houses or detached homes. The Leppävaara centre, a major traffic hub and the home to the Sello mall, is only a couple of kilometres to the south from Lintuvaara. Due to the close proximity of services and schools as well as sporting opportunities, Lintuvaara is known as a very kid-friendly neighbourhood and it has thus attracted many families to live there.