GoKawiilA tour of Oodi
A library reaching for the future
There’s something really special next to Helsinki’s central station: A building called Oodi, which describes itself as “an innovative library reaching for the future”. Let’s go on a tour!
The first thing I noticed was this giant screen, which explains that idle hanging out is not only allowed, but encouraged! <3
The bottom floor has a big area full of chess and go boards, and there were in fact a couple of people using them!
There’s a restaurant, and a built-in cinema, which shows classic movies for little money.
The best staircase ever leads us to the second floor:
There we find: professional digital working stations, with high-quality screens!
There’s a big number of recording studios and sound production studios, all of which you can rent!
Oh, and while we’re at it, why don’t we rent some instruments, as well? There’s full-time staff maintaining them.
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