The building was designed by two young architects, Hannu Tikka and Kimmo Lintula. It was a very challenging project. We designed the building on the material's terms and all of the wood in it is Finnish species from spruce to pine, birch and aspen. The design emerged from a competition won by the Timo Rantakokko office. It definitely deserves to be called a wooden bridge, although considerable amounts of steel and concrete were used in it.
Wood is a completely competitive material also for building bridges.