2024年8月17日，佩卡·萨米宁教授的公众纪念仪式在赫尔辛基举行。人们缅怀佩卡恢宏的一生，并向这位PES建筑设计事务所的创始人不懈的工作与奉献表示深深的感谢。成立了半个世纪的PES将沿循佩卡曾经引领的道路不断向前。

 

家人、朋友和同事们齐聚在此，纪念佩卡的精神，分享对佩卡的回忆。PES建筑事务所董事会主席，建筑师托马斯·希诺宁发表致辞。充满爱意的乐曲萦绕现场。PES建筑事务所上海分公司以视频形式表达了敬意，与佩卡一起工作过的同事们分享了他们对佩卡的回忆，视频也展示了佩卡在中国留下的足迹。

 

乘着暮夏的清风，伴随着阵阵海浪声，一幕幕关于佩卡的鲜活记忆盘桓在赫尔辛基的这座小岛上，也停留在每个见过他和认识他的人心里。

 

 

Prof. Pekka Salminen’s Open Memorial Event Held in Helsinki

 

On August 17, 2024, an open memorial event was held in Helsinki to celebrate Prof. Pekka Salminen’s work of life. This is to show deep gratitude towards the founder of the office for his work and dedication. The event also marked the 50th anniversary of the office, which will continue its path marked out by Pekka.

 

Family, friends and colleagues gathered together, honoring Pekka’s spirit and sharing memories about him. Architect Tuomas Silvennoinen, chairman of the board of PES-Architects delivered a speech. The event was also filled with loving music performances. PES-Architects Shanghai paid tribute in a video, displaying words from colleagues who had worked with Pekka, and footsteps Pekka left in China.

 

Vivid memories of Pekka lingered in the late summer breeze and sound of waves around this small island of Helsinki as well as each heart of those who have met and known him.

 

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以文化建筑享誉国际的建筑师

 

佩卡·萨米宁教授于2024年5月30日平静离世，他设计的位于芬兰、德国和中国的文化类建筑使他成为了享誉国际的建筑师。1937年8月11日佩卡·埃纳里·萨米宁（Pekka Einari Salminen）出生于芬兰坦佩雷。

 

萨米宁成为建筑师的求学之路非同寻常。在完成中学教育后，他先在坦佩雷理工学院学习建造建筑，学院为优秀杰出的学生提供了一条免于芬兰高中毕业考试而直通大学学习的途径。由此，佩卡获得了在1960年秋天进入赫尔辛基理工大学建筑系学习的机会。1966年，萨米宁以建筑师的身份毕业。萨米宁在学生时代便开启了自己的职业生涯，他曾分别在芬兰著名建筑师阿尔内·埃维（Aarne Ervi）和蒂莫·彭蒂拉（Timo Penttilä）的事务所工作。1968年，他同合伙人一同创立了一家事务所，这便是2006年成立的PES-Architects的前身。如今，在董事会主席托马斯·希诺宁（Tuomas Silvennoinen）和首席执行官雅科·萨米宁（Jarkko Salminen）的领导下，PES-Architects作为芬兰最重要的建筑设计事务所之一，将继续蓬勃发展。

 

在彭蒂拉的事务所，作为赫尔辛基城市剧院的项目负责人，佩卡·萨米宁致力于文化建筑的实施。也是在这个时候，他对国际项目产生了兴趣，最终也达成了其建筑生涯的巅峰。无论是专业或是个人方面，国际联系在他的工作和生活中都发挥着核心作用。他积极寻找各类联系，最初是在欧洲，特别是在德国、波兰和克罗地亚。其后到了21世纪，他以退休的年龄在中国开启了一段非凡的全新职业生涯。

 

萨米宁充满着洋溢的热情、丰沛的精力、开阔的视野。在将想法变为现实方面，他是一位发起者，是问题的解决者，也是坚持不懈的执行者。他认为，建筑师的使命不仅仅是设计和建造，更是为了创造一个更美好的世界，让人们在这个世界里能够自由地生活、工作、实现自我。他经常说自己是一个充满激情的建造者——他的建筑的起点往往来源于自然界有机形式的结构理念。除了结构、材料、用户意愿和形式之外，建筑还必须形成一个完整的整体。建筑物的内部和外部必须遵循相同的氛围、形式语言和实质性。这些原则在拉赫蒂城市剧院中尤为明显，宏伟的建筑、技术解决方案、室内空间的人性化与建筑规模相结合，使之成为了无任何妥协之处的艺术整体。拉赫蒂城市剧院开启了佩卡成为文化建筑建筑师的序章。

 

萨米宁的早期作品还包括拉赫蒂体育中心的总体规划及其主看台的设计，这是萨米宁精湛的混凝土建筑的典型代表。体育娱乐类建筑及与之相关的研究工作是佩卡·萨米宁20世纪70年代职业生涯的重要组成部分。

 

萨米宁本人认为他最重要的作品有芬兰的拉赫蒂城市剧院（1983年）、赫尔辛基-万塔国际机场2号航站楼扩建（1999年）、德国的圣玛丽教堂音乐厅（2001年），以及中国的无锡大剧院（2012年）和福州海峡文化艺术中心（2018年）。目前正在建设中的南京南部新城会展中心将是他项目的最终完工之处。

 

1985年，萨米宁开始赫尔辛基-万塔机场的总体规划，之后完成了中央航站楼的建造以及众多机场扩建和改造项目。此后的39年来，PES建筑设计事务所参与了众多的机场项目。

 

佩卡·萨米宁于20世纪80年代担任芬兰建筑师协会（SAFA）主席，并于90年代末担任芬兰建筑公司协会（ATL）主席。他是芬兰技术科学院成员。萨米宁于1998年被芬兰总统授予教授荣誉称号（北欧最高学术称号），2002年获得芬兰国家艺术奖，2012年获得芬兰白玫瑰勋章指挥官十字勋章。他的国际荣誉还包括克罗地亚总统授予的克罗地亚之星勋章（2003年）和波兰建筑师协会授予的Bene Merentibus勋章（2019年）。1987年，芬兰Merikarhut帆船协会授予萨米宁“大金色航行者”勋章。

 

帆船航行是萨米宁成年后热衷的爱好。1987年，他从赫尔辛基航行至地中海，之后继续航行至亚得里亚海和克罗地亚的杜布罗夫尼克。克罗地亚北部的乌尼耶岛连续二十年作为萨米宁国际文化活动的中心。乌尼耶岛国际工坊建筑中心画廊仅在夏季开放，但是振兴橄榄生产是一项全年挑战，而最巅峰的成就则是建筑中心自己的艺术橄榄油。

 

在其自传《远航》中， 佩卡·萨米宁说：“建筑的出口就像长途航行：最重要的决定是出发。”现在，他长长的人生航程已落下帷幕。留下的是家人们的思念：他的妻子泰拉·萨米宁（Telle Salminen）、儿子雅里佩卡（Jaripekka）和雅科（Jarkko）及其家人，以及更庞大的家族成员。他是一位充满激情、富有创造力和才华的建筑师，但家人和亲人在他的生活中同样重要。他运用自己的创造力，为孙女内拉（Nella）设计和建造了一座树屋，并一同完成了多种创意项目。这些都体现了他对家人的浓厚真挚的关爱。

 

本文由萨米宁的妻子泰拉·萨米宁，PES建筑事务所董事长、建筑师托马斯·希诺宁，以及萨米宁传记的作者、记者奥莉·哈基宁撰写。

 

 

Architect Internationally Known For His Cultural Buildings

 

Professor Pekka Salminen, an architect internationally renowned for his cultural buildings in Finland, Germany and China, passed away on May 30, 2024 after a short illness. Pekka Einari Salminen was born in Tampere on August 11, 1937.

 

Salminen’s path to becoming a university-educated architect was unconventional. After completing his secondary education, he first studied construction architecture at the Tampere Institute of Technology, which provided outstanding students with a direct pathway to university studies without a matriculation examination. This allowed Pekka to enroll in the architectural department of the Helsinki University of Technology in the autumn of 1960, graduating as an architect in 1966. Salminen started his career while still a student, working at Aarne Ervi’s and Timo Penttilä’s offices. In 1968, he and his partner founded the office that eventually became PES-Architects in 2006. Now under the lead of Tuomas Silvennoinen as chair of the board and Jarkko Salminen as CEO, PES-Architects continues to thrive as one of the foremost Finnish architecture practices.

 

At Penttilä’s office, Pekka Salminen devoted himself to the implementation of cultural buildings as project manager for the Helsinki City Theatre project. This was also where he developed an interest in international projects, which would become the pinnacle of his architectural career. International connections, both professional and personal, played a central role in his work and life. He actively sought contacts, initially in Europe – especially in Germany, Poland and Croatia – and then embarked on an exceptional new career in China in the early 2000s, at retirement age.

 

Salminen was a passionately enthusiastic, energetic, and open-minded visionary, known for his ability to initiate, solve, and persevere in bringing ideas to life. He believed that an architect’s mission is to design and build a better world for people to live, work and find personal fulfilment in. He often said that he was a passionate builder, and the starting point for his designs was often a structural idea that originated from organic forms in nature. In addition to the consideration of structures, materials, form and the users’ needs, architecture should form an intact whole. Both the interior and exterior of a building should convey the same atmosphere, form language and materiality. These principles are particularly evident in the Lahti City Theatre, where the majestic concrete architecture, technical solutions, humanity of the interior spaces, and the scale combine to form an uncompromising overall work of art. The Lahti City Theatre launched Pekka’s career as a designer of cultural buildings.

 

Salminen’s early works also included the master plan for the Lahti Sports Centre and its main grandstand, which is a typical example of Salminen’s skillful concrete architecture. Buildings for sports and recreation, as well as related research, were an essential part of Pekka Salminen’s career in the 1970s.

 

Salminen considered his main works to be the Lahti City Theatre (1983) and the extension of Helsinki Airport Terminal 2 (1999) in Finland, the Marienkirche Concert Hall (2001) in Germany, and the Wuxi Grand Theatre (2012) and Fuzhou Strait Cultural and Arts Centre (2018) in China. The Nanjing South New Town Convention and Exhibition Centre, currently under construction, will be his last completed project.

 

Salminen started work on the master plan for Helsinki Airport in 1985, leading to the construction of the Middle Terminal and numerous airport expansion and renovation projects. Since then, PES-Architects has been involved in various Helsinki Airport projects over a period of 39 years.

 

Pekka Salminen served as chair of the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) in the 1980s and as chair of the Association of Architectural Firms (ATL) in the late 1990s. He was also a member of the Academy for Technical Sciences in Finland. He received the title of Professor in 1998, the State Award for Art in 2002,

 

and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 2012. His international recognitions included the Order of the Croatian Star awarded by the President of Croatia (2003) and the Bene Merentibus Medal awarded by the Polish Association of Architects (2019). The Merikarhut yachting association awarded Salminen with the Grand Golden Sailor’s Badge in 1987.

 

Sailing was a passionate hobby for Salminen in adulthood. In 1987, he sailed from Helsinki to the Mediterranean, continuing to the Adriatic Sea and Dubrovnik in Croatia. The island of Unije, located in northern Croatia, became the centre of Salminen’s international cultural activities for over two decades. The UWI Architecture Centre and Gallery operated during the summer, but reviving olive oil production was a year-round challenge. The crowning achievement was UWI’s own Art Olive Oil.

 

In his biography, Pitkä purjehdus (The Long Voyage, 2022), Pekka Salminen says, ‘The same rule applies to the export of architecture as to long-distance sailing: the most important thing is decide to go’. Now his long voyage of life has come to an end. He will be deeply missed by his wife Telle Salminen, sons Jaripekka and Jarkko with their families, and his extended family circle. Pekka was a passionate, creative and skilled architect, but his family and loved ones were also central to his life. He would use his creativity, for example, to design and build a treehouse for his granddaughter Nella, and in other creative projects with her. This reflected his sincere care for his loved ones.

 

The writers are Pekka Salminen’s wife Telle Salminen, architect Tuomas Silvennoinen, chair of the board of PES-Architects, and journalist Auri Häkkinen, the author of Salminen’s biography.