The Courtyard

City Hotel which opened at the beginning of 2020, is an elegant addition to the rapidly changing cityscape of Tampere in southern Finland. It shares its lot with the postmodern Tampere Hall concert and congress center completed in 1990.

The aim in designing the hotel was to create a building that would feel like a natural, yet distinctive part of the sprawling congress center complex. The LEED Gold-certified hotel has a simple white volume. Its angles and textures continue the architecture of the congress center. Despite the large size and prominent location, the design in a way camouflages the hotel. By filling a void in the urban realm, the new building also strengthens the connection between

Hall and the main building of Tampere University located on the opposite side of the street.