Itä-Pasila
21.11.2006 at 12:30 | In Architecture, Go At Least Once, I Like it Anyway, Not Romantisch, Strange | 4 CommentsItä-Pasila is one of the most interesting districts I have seen in Helsinki. It is an urbanistic experiment elevated in the mid-seventies around the same time as another similarly grey district – Merihaka.
The idea of both concrete jungles was to create separate layers for the cars and for the people. While Merihaka is only a group of buildings Itä-Pasila is itself a city within the city housing over 3500 people and concentrating many more thousands of workplaces.
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why dont you take some pictures in the summer, and they whould look happier? or maby in the winter when there is some snow? now you’we just caught it at it’s worst (the city I mean)
Comment by youre mama — 29.01.2007 #
Hi, thanks for the comment.
Honestly I don´t see much purpose in trying to make Itä-Pasila look happier.
My intention is not to make the places look as good as possible but to document my impression about them. I see Pasila as a grey and sad place.
You´re welcome to submit your own impression about it.
Comment by Wojtek Mejor — 29.01.2007 #
Honestly, Itä-Pasila would not look that much happier in the summer or in the snow. It was a future project that didn’t really work as well as hoped. The thing that makes a place happy is people, and Itä-Pasila as such is not that inviting.
Comment by Christian — 3.05.2009 #
Indeed, it would be quite a different place if lively. Instead most of the time it looks like a ghost town. It seems that people use it only as a dormitory so the streets never get busy.
Comment by Wojtek Mejor — 3.05.2009 #