Kaljakallio

One summer's evening back in the 1950s, five young architects sat on the granite rocks of the Lauttasaari hill drinking some beers and trying to ignore the cold shadow of the water tower creeping across them. They looked down at a bumpy piece of land sloping steeply towards the coast and thought how one day they should buy it and build a house for each of them with a communal garden where they could sit and continue drinking their beer.

The water tower has gone now and so have the young architects but at the end of Pohjoisniementie you'll find a row of five beautiful houses, staggered down a hill with one communal garden. The houses are known as the Kaljakallio, the Beer Rock.