Riina Palva, Architect and Partner VERSTAS
Riina Palva cofounded the Helsinki-based architectural firm Verstas Architects in 2004 together with Väinö Nikkilä, Jussi Palva and Ilkka Salminen. Besides learning environments, Verstas Architects firm has completed a great number of public, residential, commercial and urban design projects. In 2015 Verstas Architects received the Finnish State Award for Architecture, specially for representing new school architecture of exceptionally high quality.