Otaniemi

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Otaniemi (Otnäs in Swedish) is a district in Espoo, Finland. It is located near the center of Helsinki. Otaniemi is most notable as the home of (and synonymous for) the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). Moreover, the business incubator Innopoli and some tech-related corporate buildings are found in there. Dipoli, a student association building often rented for trade fairs, is in Otaniemi.

Otaniemi hosts a vibrant - and at times rowdy - student community especially concentrated in the several blocks of student housing called Teekkarikylä. Part of Teekkarikylä is owned by the student association of TKK, part is owned by HOAS.

Many buildings located in the Otaniemi campus area are designed by architect Alvar Aalto. For this reason, the area is protected as a national scenery, representing the modernist and functionalist architecture Finland is famous for internationally.

[edit] See also

• Districts of Espoo

[edit] External links

• Home pages of Otaniemi
• Helsinki University of Technology

[edit] Maps

• Map of Otaniemi
• Otaniemi at Google Maps