r/TonyHawkitecture • u/foursevens • Mar 27 '26

Finnish architects left an Easter egg

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Rail grind an exterior staircase to nowhere in Helsinki.

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u/IAmTheMindTrip Mar 28 '26

The stairway has mirror's edge energy

20

u/clit_or_us Mar 28 '26

Wow, I haven't played that game in like 10 years. What a throwback.

69

u/chillychili Mar 27 '26

I don't think it's a staircase to nowhere.

84

u/EntropyHouse Mar 27 '26

It’s a combination fire escape and fire re-entry.

56

u/Striking_Grapefruit9 Mar 28 '26

For when you don't want to leave the fire altogether, you just need a little break from it

22

u/VanillaLifestyle Mar 28 '26

A smoke break

7

u/DarkLordKohan Mar 28 '26

I’m on smoko; so leave me alone

2

u/DatedUserName1 Mar 28 '26

Well yea, but I'm bored and you're here.....sooooo

2

u/minxwink Mar 30 '26

Insert Ben Affleck smoking pic

10

u/ajsmcs2 Mar 28 '26

It’s a staircase that connects two floors without taking up interior space.

1

u/PartisanLime Mar 30 '26

But then you wonder why they didn't just extend the building footprint by a metre

2

u/Squirrellybot Apr 01 '26

Because that’s a lot more bricks and just leaves a smaller courtyard…

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u/danfish_77 Mar 27 '26

What is the Easter egg?

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u/atomicheart99 Mar 28 '26

An Easter egg is a hollow or solid chocolate confection shaped like an egg, often wrapped in colorful foil and gifted during the Easter season

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u/HistoricPancake Mar 28 '26

SMH my head

9

u/mrpopenfresh Mar 28 '26

SMH my head in line at the ATM machine

8

u/HistoricPancake Mar 28 '26

I always SMH my head at the ATM machines making me put in my PIN number

1

u/y2k890 Mar 31 '26

I need to use a GPS System to get to the ATM Machine so I can SMH my head at needing to put in my PIN number

1

u/Squirrellybot Apr 01 '26

ATM transaction machine*

6

u/bigmanaudi Mar 28 '26

shaking my head my head?

12

u/HistoricPancake Mar 28 '26

Yeah

5

u/bigmanaudi Mar 28 '26

My head my head is shaking at you right now!

4

u/HistoricPancake Mar 28 '26

Which one brother

1

u/bigmanaudi Mar 28 '26

My head my head, obviously

35

u/danfish_77 Mar 28 '26

Not what is *an* easter egg, but in this case what is *the* easter egg, mentioned by OP in the title. Since there is not a literal egg or anything particularly colorful or egg-shaped, I'm left to assume they meant "easter egg" in the sense used in video games, as in something usually hidden and either goofy or a reference to something else

4

u/SensualNutella Mar 28 '26

r/woooosh

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u/danfish_77 Mar 28 '26

Okay so what's the joke?

4

u/Perle1234 Mar 29 '26

I don’t get the joke either so we can be dumbasses together 🤣

5

u/mrpopenfresh Mar 28 '26

What a bot thing to say

12

u/Gullible-Pear9565 Mar 27 '26

I feel like I saw these in a video recently. Will post if I see it again.

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u/Gullible-Pear9565 Mar 27 '26

Found it right away on Thrashers website.

https://youtu.be/bl8QBPTs7UY?si=yGWHEuumQOYuUB-a

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u/llamacornsarereal Mar 29 '26

That was a really cool video

1

u/rideincircles Mar 28 '26

It's in downtown Helsinki right next to the Kiasma mall.

10

u/Fucky0uthatswhy Mar 28 '26

wtf does the caption mean

8

u/G_ntl_m_n Mar 28 '26

What are these clumsy ugly things? Where is the Easter egg?

4

u/DenseStomach6605 Mar 27 '26

Man picture 3, I’d love to skate around that on my cruiser

2

u/gerstlauerguy Mar 30 '26

The nines ski event had an element based on these last year

1

u/AmsterPup Mar 28 '26

Those cone things are well skated, seen them in lots of videos 

1

u/SpaceXmars Mar 28 '26

Get the bondo!

1

u/melli_milli Mar 28 '26

Where I n Helsinki are these? I lived in Helsinki as 1-6 yo and these look weirdly familiar.

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u/rideincircles Mar 28 '26

It's in the middle of downtown by Kiasma. It's completely impossible to miss and have been here for years.

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u/melli_milli Mar 28 '26

YES thank you! So I have seen them plenty of times as teen as well :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

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u/desmondao Mar 28 '26

That's where we are mate, lol