Kamppi Chapel

This guide to the Kamppi Chapel in Helsinki starts with the one word architect Mikko Summanen gave a competition jury in 2008: calmness. That single idea explains why his small wooden pod on Narinkka Square, one of Finland's busiest patches of pavement, was built with no windows at all. You'll hear how K2S Architects turned curved glue-laminated ribs and finger-jointed spruce into a chapel that opened in 2012, and why it was never meant to hold sermons but a rotating team of church and social workers instead. Step inside and notice how the noise of the square simply stops at the wood.