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Mikontalo is a large student housing complex in Hervanta, Tampere, Finland. Its exact address is Insinöörinkatu 60, 33720 Tampere, Finland.
With affordable rents, easy availability and location near Tampere University of Technology, it is popular dwelling for first year students and exchange students.
Mikontalo was built during period 1978–1980 . It consists of 4 blocks with 12 floors where 767 dwellings are situated. Mikontalo offers for its inhabitants also saunas (two each building), a free gym, public lounge with a TV-set, nintendo Wii, Soundsystem, board games, coffee machine and microwave; laundry room (5 washing and 2 drying machines), cable TV and, of course, connection to the Internet.
According to word of mouth, Mikontalo is the biggest dwelling building in Finland, and even in Nordic Countries. This is however hard to confirm.
The building went through major renovations from Summer 2007 until Summer 2009. During the renovation juliet balconies were added to some of the apartments. Also the facade panels were painted with bluish grey color, replacing red, orange and yellow colors.