The Finlayson industrial area is a historic industrial area in the centre of

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, Finland. It is located in the Finlayson district to the west of the

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rapids, north of the

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street. Opposite the area to the east of Tammerkoski is the

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former industrial area. Neither of the areas remain in industrial use today, but many of the old industrial buildings remain in their place. The Finlayson factory was founded in 1820 by

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industrialist James Finlayson. He commissioned a factory on the upper reaches of the

rapids. None of the original buildings commissioned by Finlayson remain to this day. Finlayson sold the factory to Carl Samuel Nottbeck and Georg Adolf Rauch in 1836. The new owners started to expand the factory. Nowadays the area is owned by the

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Kuusvooninkinen

The oldest building is TR 1 (industrial building 1), also known as Kuusivooninkinen and also referred to as the Old factory. John Barker, specialising in modern industrial construction, took part in its design. The name Kuusivooninkinen comes from the building's six floors ("''kuusi''",

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for "six" and "''våning''",

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for "floor"), with the floors supported by cast iron pillars constructed by the

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ironworks. At the time of its construction it was a veritable skyscraper compared to the buildings around it. The Kuusvooninkinen building was completed in 1837. The machinery for spinning were ready by the next year. Spinning started in the building in 1839. The Kuusivooninkinen building was Finland's first modern industrial building. This is based on its supporting structure, which was built with cast iron pillars instead of intermediary walls. The building was fitted with fire extinguishing equipment. In 1892 this was replaced with an automatic firefighting system. At the time the tower serving as the common stairway for the Kuusvooninkinen building and the adjacent TR 2 factory building was extended so that the water container of the firefighting system could be built high enough.

Other industrial buildings

*TR 2 *TR 4 Koskitehdas *TR 5 *TR 6 dying plant *TR 7 Katuvapriikki *TR 9 Seelanti *TR 10 Plevna *TR 15 old dying plant (dismantled in 2005) *TR 22 Eteläturbiini *TR 31 Puutarhatehdas *TR 34 head office *TR 36 steam engine *TR 37 Siperia *TR 48 factory shop *TR 52

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*TR 54 finishing room *TR 57 Laappihuone (dismantled in 2003)

Chimney

The Finlayson factory chimney was built in 1899 to the Siperia factory building. The chimney is made of brick and is 65 metres high.

Other buildings and structures

Finlayson church The Finlayson Church ( fi, Finlaysonin kirkko; sv, Finlaysons kyrka) is a church built in Gothic Revival style located in the Finlayson industrial area in the district by the same name in Tampere, Finland. It was built in 1879 as the church ...

* Finlayson palace * Finlayson electric track *

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* Tampere garden channel * Tallipiha * Tampere first post office

Current situation

Finlayson ceased textile production in the area in the early 1990s.Pirkanmaan teollisuushistoria – Finlaysonin alue
, Museums of Tampere. Even before that, a design competition of the future of the area was held in 1988, which was won by architect bureau 8 Studio Oy. The new

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plan of the area was accepted by the city council of Tampere in 1995.Järvi, Mikko
Tammerkosken muutos ja rakennusperintö
, Museum of Environment and Board of Antiquities. Accessed on 23 August 2010. Most of the old buildings in the area have been preserved, but they are no longer in industrial use. The Finlayson

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(1923) is still active at Kuninkaankatu 3. The Finlayson area buildings now host other companies, educational institutes and museums. New buildings with a total floor area of 30 thousand square metres have been built in the area, with about 800 people living in them. The Finlayson area also hosts the business centre Siperia which was opened in 2001 in the renovated premises of the old spinning hall. It has over ten businesses, mostly restaurants and cafés, but also other businesses such as the entertainment centre ZBase offering laser battles. The Plevna building to the west of Itäinenkatu hosts the

Finnkino Plevna Plevna is a Finnkino movie theatre in central Tampere, Finland, in the Finlayson district. With its ten auditoria it is the largest movie theatre in Tampere and one of the largest in Finland. The theatre is located in the old Finlayson industrial ...

movie theatre, a brewery restaurant and a parking garage. There is a pedestrian tunnel leading from the shopping centre underneath

to the Frenckell square. In June 2017 a

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grocery store was opened in the Seelanti building in the Finlayson area.Finlaysonin alueelle tuleva Lidl avaa ovensa kesäkuussa – Näin myymälä on sovitettu vanhaan tehdasrakennukseen
, ''

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'' 23 May 2017. Accessed on 23 May 2017.

References

External links

Official site

Finlayson

''Koskesta voimaa''

''Koskesta voimaa''
Cultural track of tycoon Wilhelm von Nottbeck
cultural services of Tampere
Children's Finlayson track: Hilma and the cotton factory
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