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Heritage Buildings: Joona Manner Battles a Millionaire Family Over an Elevator in a Jugend Building

From Helsingin Sanomat · () Finnish

Translated from Finnish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Joona Manner is trying alone to stop an elevator from being built in his building’s entrance hall.
  • Residents of the Jugend building in Kruununhaka first fought over the issue more than 20 years ago, and the dispute has now resumed.

Joona Manner is once again trying to prevent an elevator from being built in the entrance hall of his Jugend building in Helsinki’s Kruununhaka district.

The dispute first divided residents more than 20 years ago. Manner did not think about the conflict when he first viewed the apartment, instead admiring what he called an exceptional staircase with original floral ornaments.

We thought, wow, what a place.

· Joona MannerManner recalled his reaction to the building’s distinctive entrance hall during his first apartment viewing.
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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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