The restoration of this historical building took over a decade to complete. The restoration of the different structures of the Parliament building was a significant venture, which endured around 10 years. The update of the main historical building was finished last, and the point was to reestablish its original colour scheme as per the vision of J.S. Sirén, who initially planned the structure.

Notwithstanding the primary structure, the structures of the Parliament going through renovation incorporated the extensions finished during the 1970s and the previous place of the Union of the Baltic Cities, gained mostly for office use during the 1990s. Little fixes were likewise made to the Little Parliament, which was finished in 2004. Furthermore, underground coordinations offices were redesigned and new offices were assembled.

The primary creator of the Parliament House renovation, designer Peter Verhe of Helin and Co Architects, says that the work began effectively in 2007, making it a venture of over ten years. Toward the start of the undertaking, Parliament authorized a progression of building history overviews to plan data on, for instance, development, materials, building parts and furniture.

'The carefully drawn up history by Okulus Architects also takes a stand on the colour scheme of the premises, which is one of the key elements of the whole,' says Verhe.

Primary structure with historial value

The renovation of the primary structure of roughly 24,000 gross square meters was especially requesting. The house, finished in 1931, had not been totally remodeled previously. The prior repair was done in a few phases at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s.

The current redesign of the ensured and generally important property covered, in addition to other things, all structure administrations. Work began with arrangements in August 2014. The inside of the structure, the façades with flights of stairs and the whole rooftop needed renovation or rebuilding. All surfaces and goods were fixed and renovated with broad preservation.

Painting alone with the work of art of model sheets kept going more than two years. As indicated by Tomi Oksanen, CEO of Vilén and Syrjänen, the painter who did the work, painting the enormous and tall spaces of the fundamental structure required cautious work arranging. All artistic creation work was completed with framework, on the grounds that the floors of the old structure couldn't be stacked with lifts.

'In addition, the paintwork of a cultural-historically valuable building had to be really precise, i.e. edges had to be really accurate due to the high contrasts of colours, and no overlapping was allowed. Surfaces were repainted, if necessary,' Oksanen says.