Tietoevry Keilalahti Campus/Microsoft Talo (formerly named Nokia House) is the
head office building of
Tieto and
Microsoft
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Finland, located in
Keilaniemi,
Espoo
Espoo (, ; ) is a city in Finland. It is located to the west of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. Espoo is part of the Helsi ...
, just outside Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
History
The campus was built between 1995 and 1997 as headquarters for
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1 ...
by architect Pekka Helin.
It comprises three separate structures: The two most southern parts of the building were built in the early 1990s and the third, most northern part was built in 2000.
Nokia operated in the building from 1997 to 2014, with around 5000 employees working in the premises.
They owned the building up until December 2012, when it was announced that it had been sold to Finland-based Exilion for €170 million. Nokia continued using the building as its head office, leasing it on a long-term basis.
The building was transferred to
Microsoft Mobile as part of the sale of Nokia's mobile phone business to Microsoft in April 2014, at which point the building was renamed ''Microsoft Talo'' (literally ''Microsoft House''). Nokia subsequently relocated its headquarters to its former
Nokia Networks
Nokia Networks (formerly Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational data networking and telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Espoo, Finland, and who ...
offices in
Karaportti to the north.
In 2015
Tieto announced its intention to move its head office to part of the building, with the move taking place in early 2017. Microsoft Mobile closed down in 2017 when its assets were acquired by
HMD Global
HMD Global (Human Mobile Devices) is a Finnish independent mobile phone manufacturer. The company is made up of the mobile phone business that the Nokia, Nokia Corporation sold to Microsoft in 2014, then bought back in 2016 by former executives ...
, however, Microsoft is still a major tenant in the building complex, where they usually held events like the Keilaniemi Toastmasters until 2021.
In December 2017, Exilion sold the building to Germany-based Deutsche Asset Management (part of
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG (, ) is a Germany, German multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
...
) for 164 million euros.
Gallery
Nokia headquarters main entrance.jpg, Main entrance
Nokia headquarters (7).jpg, Inside
Nokia headquarters (5).jpg, Inside
Nokia headquarters (9).jpg, Inside
Nokia headquarters (1).jpg, Inside
Nokia headquarters (3).jpg, Inside
Nokia headquarters (2).jpg, Inside
Nokia headquarters (4).jpg, Inside
See also
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Apple Infinite Loop campus
References
External links
Contacts
Buildings and structures in Espoo
Office buildings in Finland
Microsoft buildings and structures
1997 establishments in Finland
Nokia
Office buildings completed in 1997
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