VR Warehouses (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The VR warehouses (VR: n makasiinit in Finnish) were a group of redbrick railway warehouses in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. Their official address was 13 Mannerheimintie. The oldest parts of the warehouses were designed by Bruno Granholm and built in 1898-1899, when they served as the cargo terminal for the Helsinki Central railway station. The warehouses were extended in 1908 and 1917, and the most recent additions were from the 1950s. They were used by the state-owned VR Group as cargo warehouses until the 1980s when they were abandoned and gradually fell into disrepair. The warehouses were without a permanent specific purpose but could be rented by anyone wishing to organize some sort of public event