Ateljé Sotamaa, where our Group X’s member Kivi Sotamaa is one of the two principals, has just finished the holistic design of Finnjävel Restaurant in Helsinki. Half a year ago two truly inspiring chefs, Henri Alén and Tommi Tuominen, and a visionary Somelier Samuil Angelov approached us with an…

Kivi Sotamaa will take parte in the exhibition and symposium Archeology of the Digital. Complexity and Convention at the Canadian Center for Architecture CCA. The symposium will be held on May 10-11, 2016. Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention, an exhibition that dissects and reassembles material from fifteen…

The Italian magazine on architecture and design Abitare includes in issue 550 an article on the housing system Atelier House by Ateljé Sotamaa, written by Knud Walter and titled “Being Open to Everything Around us”. Ateljé Sotamaa is co-directed by our Group X’s member Kivi Sotamaa. Photographs by Tuuli…

Group X’s member Kivi Sotamaa is lecturing at the College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver, next September 28th at 6:00 pm. Kivi Sotamaa is principal of Ateljé Sotamaa, and founder and design director of ADD Aalto University Digital Design Laboratory. The title of the lecture is…

Our Group X’s members Antti Ahlava and Kivi Sotamaa have been awarded with an honorable mention in the international architecture competition for the Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki. The competition has received 1,715 submissions from 77 countries. Their entry “Kissing Helsinki” has been the only submission from Finland that has…