Otaniemi

Otaniemi (Otn?s in Swedish) is a part of the city of Espoo, Finland which is near centrum of Helsinki. Most notable as the home of (and synonymous for) the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK).

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Hosts a vibrant - and at times rowdy - student community especially concentrated in the several blocks of student housing called Teekkarikyl?.

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Many buildings located in the Otaniemi campus area are designed by architect Alvar Aalto.

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Espoo: Espoo (IPA: /ˈespoː/; Esbo in Swedish) is a city on the Southern coast of Finland. It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with Helsinki, Vantaa and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen. Other bordering municipalities a...

Finland: The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. Finland has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia. The...

Helsinki: Helsinki (pronounced with the stress on the first syllable in Finnish: ), or Helsingfors in Swedish , is the capital of Finland. It is located in the southern part of Finland on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, at . Helsinki forms a conurbation with three other cities, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen...