{{Short description|Hotel in Tampere, Finland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox hotel | name = Sokos Hotel Ilves | logo = | logo_size = | logo_caption = | image = Sokos Hotel Ilves1.jpg | image_size = | caption = Hotel Ilves | pushpin_map = Finland | location = Tampere, Finland | address = Hatanpään valtatie 1, FI-33100 Tampere | hotel_chain = Sokos Hotels | coordinates = {{coord|61|29|46|N|023|46|00|E|region:FI|display=inline}} | opening_date = 1986 | closing_date = | developer = | architect = Maunu Kitunen | operator = | owner = | cost = | number_of_rooms = 336 | number_of_suites = 9 | number_of_restaurants = 5 | floor_area = | floor_count = | height = {{convert|63|m|ft|abbr=on}} | parking = | website = {{URL|https://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/hotels/tampere/original-sokos-hotel-ilves|sokoshotels.fi}} | footnotes = }}
'''Hotel Ilves''' (officially Original Sokos Hotel Ilves) is an 18-storey hotel in the centre of Tampere, Finland. It was designed by architect Maunu Kitunen and was completed in 1986.<ref name="tech.data">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930192004/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=hotelilves-tampere-finland Emporis.com: Hotel Ilves]}}</ref> The hotel has a total of 336 guest rooms and five restaurants. At {{convert|63|m|ft}} tall, the hotel is one of the tallest buildings in Finland outside Helsinki metropolitan area. Hotel Ilves is part of the S Group's Sokos Hotels chain.
==History== The S Group, a large Finnish co-operative company, first proposed the idea of building a new hotel in central Tampere in the 1970s. The site chosen was an old redbrick baize-factory situated near the Tammerkoski rapids. Two redbrick buildings and the base of an old factory chimney next to the hotel are the only surviving remnants of the large industrial premises.
In 1983 the S-group's design team travelled to the United States to see how some of the world's most famous hotels, such as the Grand Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton, were built. The project architect Maunu Kitunen completed the design in March 1983, creating a highly visible landmark in the centre of the city. The architect's idea for the shape of the building came from a matchbox.<ref name="Seppälä">Raimo Seppälä, Valovoimainen Ilves, {{ISBN|952-92-1151-1}}</ref>
The hotel was completed in 1986 and named Ilves (lynx) following a public competition.<ref name="Seppälä"/>
==See also== * List of tallest buildings in Finland
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{commons category-inline|Sokos Hotel Ilves}} * {{Official website|https://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/hotels/tampere/original-sokos-hotel-ilves}} (in English)
[[File:Clintoninilvescommon.jpg|thumb|left|Bill Clinton in Sokos Hotel Ilves, spring 2006]] {{Tampere Cityscape}} {{Portal bar|Finland|Hotels}} {{Authority control}}
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