Talk:Tapiola

The French and Japanese interwiki links go to the Sibelius poem instead of the Espoo district. J I P | Talk 11:52, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Contraversies
Pinkfluffy in my opinion the name dispute between founder Hertzen and insuranse company Tapiola deserves place. In 2013 insuranse company changes its name as Lähi-Tapiola with one aplhabet difference to Lähiö-Tapiola (=Suburb Tapiola). Beatles received €500 million from Apple Corporation in name dispute.


 * Today the insurance company has also entered the construction business. This can be compared to the dispute of Apple Corps and Apple Computers, in difference that no one protects the rights of the Garden City Tapiola. + Founder of the Garden City Tapiola Heikki von Herzen considered suing insurance company Tapiola in 1981 for stealing the trade name of Tapiola. The Garden City had used substantial resources in advertisement. Herzen was afraid that insurance company Tapiola may shorten its name by leaving the word 'insurance' away. This became also a fact for years in all advertisements in the buildings and newspapers.


 * Beatles business holding company Apple Corps sued Apple Computers in 1978 for trademark infrindgement, based on the fact that Beatles’ former recording label was called Apple. The suit was settled three years later when Apple Computers paid Apple Corps 80,000$. The settlement included the agreement that Beatles would not produce any computer equipments and Apple would not market any music recordings. The Beatles has kept the agreement this far, but Apple has entered music business. It was sued of this in 1991 and 2003 when iTunes was launched. It was resolved in 2007 with €500 million.

Watti Renew (talk) 14:56, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Espoo has selected insurance company Suburb Tapiola as major constructor of Tapiola city. This conglomerate belong to Metsä Group that claims to have headquaters in Tapiola. Can this be claimed, since it is build in opposite to all the garden city principles? Metsä Group owns the land of their headquaters bought from the ex Tennish Master of Finland in 1930s-1950s. Espoo has given Metsä Group and insurance company Tapiola privilidges to ignore all Garden City principles in new constructing: they build high, tight, free undergroud parking places and large breaking of bedrocks. These buildings will be seen everywhere in Tapiola. Tapiola founder Heikki von Hertzen saved the bedrocks saying it is vulgar and uncivilized to brake million of years old rocks. Architect Professor (town planning) Meuermann resigned the project in the 1950-60s' when ex Forest Group members demanded high houses. In the 1950's Finland was poor country after the war. Now we would have alternatives. Espoo has a lot of land. Both all the juridical courts and police have rejected to examine any of the claims of corruption in construction. There are no indipendent controllers of cultural or environmental values in construction in Finland. The expert and public statements are repeatedly ignored. Olavi Louko (responsibility of construction, cultural heritage and rocks and other environmental protection) has been convicted of corruption but there is no influence in his work and power. This should be addressed in the article. Watti Renew (talk) 15:36, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

NPOV section
I think the section "Espoo" violates the NPOV policy. It looks like a rant written by a Tapiola resident against the city of Espoo and the state of Finland. J I P &#124; Talk 09:33, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Apparently this section was removed in March 2021, seven and a half years later. Good job. J I P  &#124; Talk 23:43, 4 August 2021 (UTC)