Turku Main Library

JKMM Architects won the 1998 competition to extend Turku's century-old main library, completing the new building in 2007 as the practice's first major project. The three-storey extension connects to the historic library and the former governor's chancellery through a glazed link, wrapping around a shared courtyard used for public events, a design approach that treated the library as a piece of urban infrastructure rather than a single freestanding building.