Projects

The Aalto House

  Alvar and Aino Aalto designed for their family a detached house on a plot they had…

Type: Aino Aalto Status: 1993

A. Ahlström Paper Mill

  The manufacturing processes of the wood-processing industry underwent development during the 1970s such that they required…

Type: Erkki Kairamo Status: 2017

Alko Rajamäki Factory

  The Rajamäki factory community originated in 1888 when a yeast factory was founded in Nurmijärvi. The…

Type: Erkki Huttunen Status: 1993

Bensow House

  The offices for the agency established in 1889 by commercial counsellor Wilhelm Bensow (1864-1949), were completed…

Type: Uno Ullberg Status: 1993

BePOP Shopping Centre

  Finland in the 1980s was a time of strong economic growth and accelerating consumerism. This was…

Type: Architects Nurmela-Raimoranta-Tasa Status: 2017

Erik Bryggman’s Villas

  Erik Bryggman’s villas are perhaps his most personal architectural works. Building locations for villas in the…

Type: Erik Bryggman Status: 1993

Dipoli Building

  Dipoli, the Helsinki University of Technology Student Union building, is an integral part of the Otaniemi…

Type: Raili Paatelainen (later Pietilä) Status: 1993

Finlandia Hall

  In 1962 the City of Helsinki commissioned Alvar Aalto to design a congress and concert building…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Futuro House

  During the decades of technological progress and the belief in a better future that followed the…

Type: Matti Suuronen Status: 2017

Haukilahti Water Tower

  Water towers are an essential part of the Finnish post-war landscape undergoing urbanization. The Haukilahti water…

Type: Erkko Virkkunen Status: 2017

Helsinki City Theatre

  Helsinki City Theatre was founded in 1965, when the two workers’ theatres the Helsinki People’s Theatre…

Type: Kari Virta Status: 1993

Hotel Aulanko

  Many building projects were realised in Finland at the end of the 1930s serving the needs…

Type: Märta Blomstedt Status: 1993

Huutoniemi Church

  Aarno Ruusuvuori was commissioned to design the Huutoniemi church on the basis of an invited competition…

Type: Aarno Ruusuvuori Status: 1993

Kaleva Church

  Kaleva Church is based on the winning entry by Reima Pietilä and Raili Paatelainen in an…

Type: Raili Paatelainen (later Pietilä) Status: 1993

Kannonkoski Church

  Kannonkoski church is situated near Viitasaari in Central Finland. On its completion the building dominated the…

Type: P.E. Blomstedt Status: 1993

National Pensions Institute

  Founded in 1937, the National Pensions Institute was initially responsible for the Finnish pension system, though…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Karjaa Water Tower

  Beyond Helsinki, the main focus of architectural activity of architect Hilding Ekelund was the town of…

Type: Hilding Ekelund Status: 1993

Karjasilta Residential Area

  Karjasilta is a residential area in Oulu dating from the post-war reconstruction period. The area of…

Type: Several architects Status: 2017

Helsinki School of Economics

  The architectural competition for the main building of the Helsinki School of Economics (nowadays Aalto University…

Type: Hugo Harmia Status: 1993

Standard Terrace Housing

  The improvement in housing conditions had in the 1920s become an issue of international interest in…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Finnish Savings Bank

  The modernist bank building designed by P.E. Blomstedt was in its time boldly exceptional. Blomstedt did…

Type: P.E. Blomstedt Status: 1993

Kouvola City Hall

  The City of Kouvola has grown around a railway junction station that served the wood-processing industry…

Type: Bertel Saarnio Status: 1993

Kudeneule Factory

  An invited architecture competition for the Hyvon-Kudeneule Oy textile factory, offices and residential area was held…

Type: Viljo Revell Status: 1993

House of Culture

  The cultural multipurpose building has been a familiar building type, both internationally and domestically, in the…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Serpentine House

  The Serpentine House was one of the State Housing Board’s first subsidised apartment blocks, and was…

Type: Heimo Riihimäki Status: 1993

Helsinki-Malmi Airport

  Before Helsinki-Malmi Airport was built, Finland lagged much behind the rest of Europe, because civilian passengers…

Type: Dag Englund Status: 1993

Meilahti Primary School

  The birth of the post-Second World War baby-boomer generation as well as the rapid growth of…

Type: Osmo Sipari Status: 1993

Merihaka Housing Area

  Built on a former industrial site and landfill, Merihaka is a representative example of urban development…

Type: Arvi Ilonen Status: 2017

Metsätalo Building

  The Metsätalo building (“Forest House”) sits as an extension of the monumental neoclassical centre of Helsinki…

Type: Jussi Paatela Status: 1993

Myyrmäki Church

  Myyrmäki Church is located in a suburb of Vantaa built during the 1960s and 1970s. The…

Type: Juha Leiviskä Status: 2017

Nakkila Church

  Nakkila church, built with a bequest from the industrialist J. W. Suominen, is one of the…

Type: Erkki Huttunen Status: 1993

Olympic Buildings

  The buildings constructed for the Olympic Games in Helsinki comprise also from an international perspective a…

Type: Several architects Status: 1993

Otaniemi Chapel

  The Otaniemi chapel was built in the middle of the so-called “Student Village”, the Helsinki University…

Type: Heikki Siren Status: 1993

University of Oulu, Linnanmaa

  Finland introduced legislation in 1965 aimed at the development of higher education, which resulted in the…

Type: Kari Virta Status: 2017

Oulunsalo Municipal Offices

  The Oulunsalo Municipal Offices, situated south of the city of Oulu near the airport, is the…

Type: NVV Architects Status: 2017

Paimio Sanatorium

  Tuberculosis was the most significant public health problem in Finland in the early 1900s. The treatment,…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Industrial Centre

  Teollisuuskeskus Oy (Industrial Centre Ltd), created by the Confederation of Finnish Industry and Employers, organised in…

Type: Keijo Petäjä Status: 1993

Parainen Funerary Chapel

  The Parainen funerary chapel is minimalist and simple, somewhat like a small Greek temple. It was…

Type: Erik Bryggman Status: 1993

Porthania Building

  Education was seen as having an important role in Finland during the post-war reconstruction period. Educational…

Type: Aarne Ervi Status: 1993

Chapel of The Holy Cross

  A large number of churches and chapels were built in Finland in the 1960s influenced by…

Type: Pekka Pitkänen Status: 2017

Rovaniemi Bus Station

  The onset and rapid increase of car traffic in the 20th century revolutionized Finland in many…

Type: Kaarlo Leppänen Status: 2017

Sahanmäki Residential Area

  Sahanmäki is an architecturally cohesive sub-area of the city district of Maunula, a residential suburb dating…

Type: Hilding Ekelund Status: 1993

Salla Church

  The inhabitants of Salla faced both devastation and plight on returning to their homes following the…

Type: Eero Eerikäinen Status: 1993

Aitta Cooperative Shop, Sauvo

  Founded in 1920, the central task of the building department of the Central Finnish Cooperative Society…

Type: Erkki Huttunen Status: 1993

Seinäjoki Civic Centre

  The Seinäjoki Civic Centre came about on the basis of two architecture competitions. In 1951 Alvar…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Sibelius Museum

  The Sibelius Museum is part of the Åbo Akademi University’s campus on the eastern shore of…

Type: Woldemar Baeckman Status: 2017

SOK Offices and Warehouse, Oulu

  The first buildings representing Functionalism in Northern Finland are from the early 1930s, the most important…

Type: Erkki Huttunen Status: 1993

Säynätsalo Town Hall

  The history of Säynätsalo as an industrial community originated with Johan Parviainen who established a saw…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Taka-Töölö Residential Area

  The Helsinki district of Taka-Töölö shows the gradual breakthrough of the urban planning ideals of Functionalism.…

Type: Several architects Status: 1993

Tapiola Garden City

  The Population and Family Welfare Foundation was founded in 1941 and began to have an influence…

Type: Several architects Status: 1993

Tempo House

  The Tempo residential, office and commercial building was built in the very centre of Tampere, at…

Type: Bertel Strömmer Status: 1993

Temppeliaukio Church

  The Temppeliaukio Church is located amidst the residential blocks of the city district of Töölö, built…

Type: Timo Suomalainen Status: 2017

Turun Sanomat Building

  After moving to live in Turku in 1927 Aalto got to know Arvo Ketonen, the managing…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Workers’ Institute Annex

  The commission for the design of the Helsinki Workers’ Institute annex was awarded to Aulis Blomstedt…

Type: Aulis Blomstedt Status: 1993

Vatiala Funerary Chapel

  The concrete churches of the 1960s are a special phenomenon in Finnish 20th century architecture. During…

Type: Viljo Revell Status: 2017

Weilin & Göös Printing Works

  Ruusuvuori’s starting point for the design of the printing works was the production process itself. The…

Type: Aarno Ruusuvuori Status: 1993

Finnish Sports Institute

  Vierumäki, the Finnish Sports Institute, is a national sports coaching and educational institute, and is often…

Type: Erik Bryggman Status: 1993

Villa Mairea

  Aino and Alvar Aalto designed Villa Mairea for their close friends Maire and Harry Gullichsen. It…

Type: Aino Aalto Status: 1993

Vuoksenniska Church

  After the Second World War, the Finnish state-owned forestry company Enso-Gutzeit wanted to develop a new…

Type: Alvar Aalto Status: 1993

Resurrection Chapel

  The undisputed culmination of Erik Bryggman’s career is the Resurrection Chapel in Turku, inspired by nature…

Type: Erik Bryggman Status: 1993

Åbo Akademi University Book Tower

  Åbo Akademi University’s first purpose-built building was located in the culturally and historically important milieu of…

Type: Erik Bryggman Status: 1993