The State of Finland, the City of Helsinki and the Finnish Broadcasting Company held a
two-stage international architecture competition for the design of the Helsinki Music
Centre, which was won by an entry entitled "a mezza voce" (architects Ola Laiho, Mikko
Pulkkinen, Marko Kivistö) in 2000. The expected construction will start in 22007 and
complete in 2009. The estimated project cost is 100M euro. Currently the project is in the
design development phase.