While in Kamppi, you will notice a white hall-like structure with an arched roof. This is the 1938-completed Tennispalatsi (Tennis Palace), originally meant as a car maintenance hall for the 1940 Olympic Games (which were subsequently postponed until 1952 because of WWII), but which also included four tennis courts. The building by Helge Lundström took a long time to gain merit in people's minds and was left to deteriorate since the 1960s.
Finally, in the 1990s, the City of Helsinki started to investigate the possibility of transforming the space into a cultural center, and it now hosts HAM (Helsinki Art Museum; hamhelsinki.fi), an art gallery with changing exhibitions and a permanent space for Tove Jansson's work, as well as a cinema complex. Today, Tennispalatsi is also one of the prime examples of the functionalist style in Helsinki.
