hidden treasure helsinki
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Concrete is the new black
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Helsinki is growing fast. More and more apartments are built. Change is something that will always happen - we can't avoid it. But along this change, people have started to discover new areas for everyone's use. After long winter people want to go out and especially to places where there are other people too. But shopping mall is not the place for this. We need also space for ourself. We want to ride our longboards and skateboards, we want to organize outdoor parties which are not about making money - rather for people to have fun. Fun doesn't recquire always money, it just recquires the right place. And these places have started to open in Helsinki.
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The area was before closed for public, but as gates opened it started to suck people in. Now there are warehouses where lots of underground parties are held, there's a spot for skateboarders, music fesivals such as Flow is organized there, long wall just for graffiti art, and in Suvilahti people don't need beach for tanning - concrete ground works just fine... Near by area has been taken down by brand new buildings and public people's sauna, Sompasauna, is loosing it's original place. Also huge shopping mall with a skyscraper will open near in the future. So discover Suvilahti now when you can! It's dying.
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Kyläsaari
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It's similar to Suvilahti but a lot more rougher area. Read more about Kyläsaari here.
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Hernesaari
This is a new interesting spot. It's a questionmark will Helsinki grow to this way, but for the future there's planned to fill some part of the sea and build a regatta harbour for 800 to 900 yachts. This would make not only Hernesaari trafic busy, but as well the Helsinki bay area would be packed.
From the area you'll find nice cafe Birgitta as well as one place I'd rather not write about here but I have to: Hernesaarenranta. It's a outdoor club which ends up as a very dope experience: botox barbies, upper class sailor men and 18-year-old heavy drinkers. They play very bad music, but wine is "cheap". The place itself is very soulless and surrounded by promotion chairs from alcohol company and fake palm trees. It's definitely a good place to visit if you want to get some perspective...
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Problem?
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There's a huge problem with the building boom in Helsinki: lot's of construction waste ends up in the Baltic Sea. There have been found lots of material stranded in islands of Helsinki, meaning there's still lots in the sea as well. All the waste has been tracked down to Jätkäsaari and new west metro track buildings.
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