Tapiola

Controversies The founder of the Garden City Tapiola Heikki von Herzen considered suing insurance company Tapiola in 1981 for stealing the trade name of Tapiola.

Tapiola is also the cultural centre of Espoo, because it houses the Espoo cultural centre (home to the Tapiola Sinfonietta), the city museum (in the WeeGee house ) and the Espoo city theatre.

This applied also to the Tapiola Garden hotel constructed by the Tapiola Bank and managed by HOK Elanto.

According to the Finnish museum bureau, Tapiola is a unique phenomenon in the world.

According to the Finnish National Board of Antiquities Tapiola was the largest and most valuable of the new construction ideologies in the 1960s in Finland.

Building a new town: Finland’s new garden city: Tapiola.

Combining the architecture of modernism and the ideology of the garden city movement is credited for the huge interest in Tapiola's planning history.

Ervi ensured the centre preserved the garden-city character of Tapiola by locating the buildings around an artificial lake, however this plan was considered strange and criticised for its lack of density.

Espoo The building of Tapiola and other areas of Espoo was largely influenced by funding from the state.

Financial concerns affected the development of the western area of Tapiola, leading to the construction of housing units that were economically feasible.

In Otsolahti in eastern Tapiola, there is a small boat harbour for motor boats.

In this sense, Tapiola was both an experiment and a model.

Kino Tapiola movie theater by Aarne Ervi.

Planning in Tapiola commenced with architect, Otto-Iivari Meurman's site plan and building schedule which were reviewed from 1951 onwards.

Tapiola did not form part of any wider plan for Finland’s development other than von Hertzen’s Seven Towns Plan, a response to urban sprawl in Helsinki.

Tapiola is also the name of a Finnish insurance company, presumably from the location of its headquarters.

Tapiola is a result of close teamwork in the fields of architecture, sociology, civil engineering, landscape gardening, domestic science, and youth welfare.

Tapiola provided a utopian vision of society and an alternative to what was seen at the time as an oppressive urban environment.

Tapiola's planners aimed at demonstrating a new direction for Finnish town planning and housing.

Tapiolassa syttyi nimisota Apu 7.1.1981 no 4, Herzen: Se on harhaanjohtavaa, Se on epäkorrektia Herzen was afraid that insurance company Tapiola may shorten its name by dropping the word 'insurance'.