The internationally active architecture firm Berger+Parkkinen Architekten was founded in 1995 by Alfred Berger and Tiina Parkkinen. The competition for the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, won in the founding year, served as a powerful starting signal for their planning practice, and numerous other competition successes and recognitions followed. Since then, the firm's spectrum has grown to include urban development and public buildings, as well as residential and commercial buildings. In recent years, their buildings have been awarded the State Prize for Architecture and Sustainability and the Salzburg State Architecture Prize, among others, while the Paracelsus Bad and the Kurhaus in Salzburg (2021) and the Terra Mater Chapel (2024) were nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize.