Hervanta Central Axis

I had my Yin Yoga class in Hervanta in the evening. 

The Hervanta central axis is the largest building complex designed by Raili and Reima Pietilä. The shopping, leisure and parish centres were completed in 1979 and the multi-purpose centre in 1989. Pietiläs’ aimed to create a local identity to the new Hervanta district by using red brick, a typical material for factories in Tampere, as well as arches and rounded corners that refer to the Art Nouveau architecture in the city. Simultaneously, these recall also other historical periods, such as ancient Roman ruins. This explicit use of historical references made the Hervanta central axis one of the first examples of Postmodernism in Finland.


+18°C, sunny