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Bar Memphis Hesari

The Memphis restaurants are popular meeting points among young people. The restaurant on Helsinginkatu (Hesari) was renewed according to a fresh new restaurant concept originally implemented at the Memphis Kamppi restaurant.

Rosso Ravintolat

Rosso is a well-known, casual and popular family dining restaurant chain in Finland and has served its customers for decades with great success.

The first restaurant was opened in Lahti in 1978. Today, the chain has expanded to 42 restaurants throughout Finland and one in Tallinn, Estonia. The first Rosso restaurant that included the new concept was opened in July in Porvoo. The brief was to update the restaurant concept to meet future market needs. The new concept ‘need’ was instigated by the target groups behavioural changes for example the demand for more flexible opening hours, the concern and interest of food sources and its authenticity.

The new Rosso concept has a more Italian diner athmosphere with a focus on food. The most significant operative change to the chain of restaurants will be the installation of an open wood burning oven. It is essential to the new concept and will make Rosso’s pizzas even tastier and more famous. In addition, the restaurant concept will include a deli where customers can buy Italian food ingredients such as olive oil, balsamic vinegar, pastas and even ice cream. The concept also included family needs and designed designated play areas for children.

The Rosso restaurant in Tikkurila will be the next interior to be completely transformed.

VKontakte

An industrial warehouse with a touch of kitsch, appropriate for work and play alike.
That is how VKontakte, the largest Russian social network in Europe, envisioned their
new office space in St. Petersburg. With the relocation came a complete makeover
of the company culture.

Gullstén-Inkinen Design & Architecture designed the new offices to be as open as
possible. Meeting rooms and common areas invite VKontakte’s employees to come
together while silence and privacy can be found in different enclosed spaces and
workstations with suspended ceilings and sound-diffusing construction materials.
Large carpets absorb the sound of high heels – a fashion staple among the staff.

The atmosphere in the offices is light and playful in spite of its dark ceiling and walls.
This ambiance was achieved by bringing in colorful art, funky rugs and reflective
paint splashes. Highly stylized images of human faces appear on walls as a nod to
VKontakte’s core business. In true impressionist fashion, the images appear abstract
from up close but become clearer when observed from a distance.

Nokia Venäjän pääkonttori

Our brief for Nokia’s new Russian headquarters by the Kremlin Square involved a major change in the space allocations. Personnel that previously had their own office relocated to an open-plan work environment. The objective was to identify a solution that would enable better and more effective in-house communication and openness. The new premises include customer conference rooms and showrooms as well as workstations for 120 people. This major fit-out project involved architectural and interior design services.

Nokia

GI has been implementing the NSN international workplace concept throughout the North East regions since 2007. The concept is constantly transforming and GI has been actively involved in developing, processing and meeting modern office needs. NSN’s work is always changing, so the office spaces need to be adaptable and accommodating to ensure that specific services to staff can be provided i.e. flexible and drop-in workstations.

Design Village

Design Village is a concept plan in the Kalasatama district of Helsinki. The drafts were created in the spring of 2007.

The idea is to create an innovative meeting place for companies in the business of top design and related services. In addition to clusters of companies in the fields of interior decoration, consumer electronics, construction and clothing, the village features a center for promotions and events.

The purpose of the promotional center is to help facilitate the “villagers’” meetings with customers and media representatives in various exhibition settings. The concept also includes a restaurant which offers catering services for business events, a staff dining area and a pleasant dining and meeting place for local inhabitants.

EU-kokous 2006

Finland held the EU presidency during the second half of 2006. This meant a great deal of work in organising dozens of conferences and related events in Finland and Brussels.

Our task was to design the visual identity of these conferences along with the necessary spatial arrangements and structures.

The conferences involved thousands of invited guests and members of the press. Our total work area consisted of over 300,000 sq.m. of furnished space in 24 different conferences. Transportation of the materials used in the events called for as many as 52 trucks simultaneously. As a whole the events related to the EU presidency were the largest conference events ever hosted in Finland.

SOL

The workplace solutions GI Design & Architecture designed for SOL in Helsinki and several other locations in Finland have proven to be highly motivating work environments for the company’s staff while also serving as an important tool in communicating company culture.  The project became internationally recognized because of the unconventional mobile office concept where no employee has his own ‘signed’ work station. This completely new working environment concept was in 1992 years ahead of its time.