Grani is a
shopping center
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
located in the town center of
Kauniainen in
Uusimaa,
Finland. It has expanded in three phases, the first being commissioned in 2001 and the third in 2018. Grani was originally owned by
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,
until in 2003 the Finnish company Oy Querenchia Ltd became the new owner
and in 2006 the German company Aareal. Of the three parts, two newer are owned by VVT Kiinteistösijoitus Oy.
Grani's stores include the grocery stores
S-market
The S Group ( fi, S-ryhmä, sv, S-gruppen) is a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation with its head office in Helsinki. Founded in 1904, it consists of 20 regional cooperatives operating all around Finland in addition to SOK, ''Suomen Osuu ...
and
K-Supermarket.
The shopping center was previously occupied by the office buildings of
HOK-Elanto and Helsingin Osuuspankki, which were demolished in 1993 and 2006. Grani's architecture has been criticized, and
Kai Wartiainen
Kai Henrik Väinö Wartiainen (born 1953 in Kouvola) is a Finnish architect and former academic. He is the son of architect Henrik Wartiainen. Wartiainen was professor of urban planning at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden in ...
, the chief designer, does not consider it completely successful. The biggest problem, however, he sees around the building, where too much space is reserved for cars and road areas without reaching a comfortable small scale.
References
External links
Grani – Official Website(in Finnish & Swedish)
Shopping centres in Kauniainen
Shopping malls established in 2001
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