Welcome to the City-Center
The City-Center is a famous office and shopping centre building
located in the centre of Helsinki, Finland, right across the street
from the Helsinki Central railway station. The building was
constructed in 1967 and was designed by the Finnish architect Viljo
Revell.
In Finland, the building is popularly known as Makkaratalo
(Finnish for "sausage house"). The reason for this name is the
railing encircling the elevated parking lot occupying the third
floor of the building, which is said to look like a sausage. The
first occurrence of the name was in a cartoon drawn by the Finnish
cartoonist Kari Suomalainen. In the cartoon, a man is buying food
from a snack bar near the City-Center. He points at the railing,
and the snack bar vendor replies "Well, I'm just a small-time
businessman."
From
the City-Center Wikipedia
article.