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<sup>Camera: Canon EOS 550D - Shutter Speed: 1/640 sec - Aperture: f/5 - ISO Sensitivity: 100</sup></center>
It's a box. A cube. A green cube.

This is part of a building called <b>Kauppa-Häme</b> in streets Kauppakatu 3 and through to the other side, Hämeenkatu 16. It was built in 1965, architect <b>Aarne Ervin</b>. On the same property, is the [<b>Tampere City Hall</b>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere_City_Hall), built in 1890.

City hall used to have wings that were built in the 19th Century. Two-storey city prison and volunteer fire department on the Hämeenkatu side and three-storey police station, previously city hotel, on the Kauppakatu side were demolished in the 1960's. City hall's future was on the stake at that time too, but fortunately was spared. 

[Here you can see an old photo of the volunteer fire department](http://siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject.do?uri=http://museosiiri.tampere.fi:8080/VALOKUVA/content/SIR_EXEC/images/primary/20070503/11781770218580.jpg) taken 1893.

And [here's an old photo or the same building](http://siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject.do?uri=http://museosiiri.tampere.fi:8080/VALOKUVA/content/SIR_EXEC/images/primary/2003092912/10648268366900.jpg) before taking down. Photographed January 27th 1964.

Here's an [old photograph, taken July 23rd 1931 of the exact same street](http://siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject.do?uri=http://museosiiri.tampere.fi:8080/VALOKUVA/content/SIR_EXEC/images/primary/20041112/11002479789960.jpg) where I was standing when I photographed the green cube 87 years later. And here's a second one [taken a little bit further](http://siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject.do?uri=http://museosiiri.tampere.fi:8080/VALOKUVA/content/SIR_EXEC/images/primary/20060124/11380935204900.jpg).

And finally [two photographs](http://siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject.do?uri=http://museosiiri.tampere.fi:8080/VALOKUVA/content/SIR_EXEC/images/primary/2003100108/10649845673100.jpg) taken 1964 [after the demolish](http://siiri.tampere.fi/displayObject.do?uri=http://museosiiri.tampere.fi:8080/VALOKUVA/content/SIR_EXEC/images/primary/2003100108/10649845680410.jpg).

This green monster, the Hulk of Tampere, was built because someone thought it is more efficient and cheaper and better than the restauration of old buildings.

It is a green cube.

<sub>Me not like.</sub>

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<sup>Camera: Canon EOS 550D - Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec - Aperture: f/4.5 - ISO Sensitivity: 100</sup></center>

Brute Architecture of Finland
[Part 1](https://steempeak.com/photography/@insaneworks/brute-architecture-of-finland-1)

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<b>Paying It Forward</b>
https://steempeak.com/payitforward/@insaneworks/pay-it-forward-small-sp-delegation-here

Part of my Paying it forward project <sup>(Oh, it turned out into a project now!)</sup> is to do as much as I can to accounts that have less SP and RC than I have. (Obviously not all, only few chosen ones.) Delegate SP for a limited time, upvote them and also promote those accounts on my blog posts. I also try to have time to comment more, not just upvote as commenting is better for me also. For my own growth.

<h3>Go and check out @cutthruyou and his Inktober posts! :)</h3>