Gastronomad #10 July-August 2012
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GASTRØ·CULTUR<br />
Abattoir<br />
It is probably the main food attraction of the World Design Capital. A food and design meeting place<br />
will be open to all in the Tukkutori Wholesale Market in Helsinki. The market will be open for four<br />
months. Farmers Market style markets, PopUp restaurants and design events will bring together<br />
people who are interested in food and urban culture.<br />
We have visited the space in June (work in progress!) and the reburbishing looks very promising.<br />
The red-brick buildings designed by Bertel Liljequist were originally built to house the Helsinki Abattoir<br />
in 1933. Most of the buildings are protected, and the area they form is earmarked on the plans<br />
for the retail trade. The other parts of Tukkutori will remain in use by the wholesale trade and food<br />
and drink production. Development of the Abattoir area retail trade is designated as one of the main<br />
aims in the City of Helsinki food culture strategy.<br />
The Abattoir area will develop in the future to form an active extension to the city’s other stylish cultural<br />
facilities, such as the Cable Factory, Korjaamo, and Suvilahti. The area will be an approachable,<br />
laid-back concept appealing to all the senses, which will be a certain source of the city’s finest specialities<br />
and which will also enable active participation. When planning the operation, models around<br />
the world have included the Meatpacking District of Manhattan and Kødbyen in Copenhagen.<br />
In the Greater Helsinki area, the most active forefront of culinary culture is currently represented by<br />
residents who are urbane, thirty-something in spirit, and themselves create and change urban and<br />
food culture. Good examples are the internationally noted Restaurant Day, the We Love Helsinki<br />
events, and the ever-increasing PopUp restaurants and events. The main target group of the Abattoir<br />
area will also be these pioneers, who have created completely new ways of generating culture<br />
and influencing their own environment.<br />
Tukkutori in Helsinki is an agency of the City of Helsinki, which lets premises and plots of land to<br />
wholesalers, as well as food hall and market traders. The Tukkutori services include a wholesale<br />
meat hall, freezer plant, wholesale greengrocery hall and a wholesale greengrocery market.<br />
Date: September–December <strong>2012</strong><br />
Website: www.heltu.fi<br />
Place: Customs market, Työpajankatu 2, Helsinki<br />
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