The Land of Santa Claus, Rovaniemi County in Finland, held an architectural design competition to create a symbolic gate to the land. The Centre would have included the municipal government, a hotel, a shopping mall and the “gate”. The latter is symbolised in this winning project by an azure globe showing the polar circle and Rovaniemi which is placed above the passage to the entrance. The building, having the volume of a square and called “Nabatuurium” symbolises the meeting place of the two polar circles – on one side of the thick granite wall dividing the building live the penguins, on the other side the polar bears. The hotel has a triangular shape and symbolises the tundra.