Porthania staircase

I've long wanted to blip the staircase in the Porthania Building - a modern masterpiece of Finnish architect Aarne Ervi renovated for the Law Faculty in 2006, and for various reasons this might be my last trip to the city for some time (although...who can tell?). So I thought I had better get on with blipping it when I spent the day here in meetings and giving a presentation, instead of being distracted by those dalek heads which did for me one of the last times I was in the building.

I also had to resist the allure of blipping some interesting blacksmithery going on in the Christmas Market on Senate Square and the allure of the Helsinki Christmas tree in front of the floodlit cathedral. I've a little time to take some more photos tomorrow morning before rushing to the airport, so you might get a 'daylight' (I use that term advisedly in Helsinki in December) Christmas market photo.

Anyway, back to the Porthania building staircase. Definitely a worthy addition to my staircases series, even if it is not quite looking at its best because of some peculiar plywood contraption nestling at the bottom. Don't ask me what it is. It actually looked like a hand making that hand gesture which is apparently making a misery of bus spotters' lives (warning, Daily Fail linkage alert). Well I never.