Narinkka

The Narinkka square. In the background are the Kamppi Center and the Sokos Hotel Presidentti.
The financial building of the former Turku barracks, later a bus station, at the eastern edge of the Narinkka square.
Side buildings and exercise field of the Turku barracks, at the site of the current Narinkka square, photographed in 1909 by Signe Brander.
The former Narinkka along Simonkatu photographed in 1909 by Signe Brander.

Narinkka or Narinkkatori[1] (Swedish: Narinken) is a square in Kamppi, Helsinki, Finland. It is surrounded by the Kamppi Center to the west, the former financial building of the Turku barracks to the east and the Scandic Hotels hotel Simonkenttä to the south. To the north the square borders the Salomonkatu street, which is nowadays a pedestrian zone, to the south between the square and the Simonkatu street is the Kamppi Chapel (the Silence Chapel). The square got its current form during the construction of the Kamppi Center and was built in 2005, when it also got its name.

The square has held public events such as various exhibitions, sports competitions and outdoor concerts, including the Eurovillage event related to the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki.[2] The 2006 sculpture Yrittäjäveistos (Leverty) by Eva Löfdahl, which was raised to honour the Finnish entrepreneurs, is located at the square.[3]

  1. ^ Kotus.fi
  2. ^ "Helsingin keskustan Narinkkatori on halpa, mutta hiljainen - HS.fi - Kaupunki". Archived from the original on 2007-03-04.
  3. ^ http://taidemuseo.hel.fi/suomi/veisto/veistossivu.html?id=473 [dead link‍]