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Hotel Torni
Historical hotel located in Helsinki, Finland
Hotel Torni (lit. 'Hotel Tower', officially Solo Sokos Hotel Torni) is a historical hotel located in Kamppi, Helsinki, Finland, and a part of the Sokos Hotels chain. When opened in 1931, it became the tallest building in Finland, a position it maintained until the completion of the new Neste headquarters in neighboring Espoo in 1976.
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It remained the tallest building in Helsinki until it was overtaken by Itäkeskuksen maamerkki in 1987. The interior of the building was completely renovated in 2005. It is located in central Helsinki, in the so-called Helsinki Design District. The hotel was designed by Finnish architects Bertel Jung & Valter Jung in 1928, and has 14 stories. The spirit of modernity was also captured by the extraordinary scheme devised in 1930, when, during the hotel's construction, an access structure was erected on the roof. This was intended to allow docking for the airship Graf Zeppelin, which visited Helsinki on 24 September 1930. The idea was that the airship might alight upon the roof of Torni, whereupon its passengers could descend by ladder and proceed to the bar for a cocktail. The mooring was never realised, yet the passage built for this purpose remains visible in the ceiling of the Ateljee Bar, which now occupies the rooftop space.
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