The Aalto House
Alvar and Aino Aalto designed for their family a detached house on a plot they had…
Alvar and Aino Aalto designed for their family a detached house on a plot they had…
The manufacturing processes of the wood-processing industry underwent development during the 1970s such that they required…
The Rajamäki factory community originated in 1888 when a yeast factory was founded in Nurmijärvi. The…
In Erik Bryggman’s time Turku became the centre of Modernist architecture in Finland. As the long-standing…
The offices for the agency established in 1889 by commercial counsellor Wilhelm Bensow (1864-1949), were completed…
Finland in the 1980s was a time of strong economic growth and accelerating consumerism. This was…
Erik Bryggman’s villas are perhaps his most personal architectural works. Building locations for villas in the…
Dipoli, the Helsinki University of Technology Student Union building, is an integral part of the Otaniemi…
In 1962 the City of Helsinki commissioned Alvar Aalto to design a congress and concert building…
During the decades of technological progress and the belief in a better future that followed the…
Water towers are an essential part of the Finnish post-war landscape undergoing urbanization. The Haukilahti water…
The restructuring of the urban block comprising the Helsinki City Hall was part of an attempt…
Helsinki City Theatre was founded in 1965, when the two workers’ theatres the Helsinki People’s Theatre…
Many building projects were realised in Finland at the end of the 1930s serving the needs…
Aarno Ruusuvuori was commissioned to design the Huutoniemi church on the basis of an invited competition…
The design of Hyvinkää church and work centre is based on the winning entry in a…
The demographics in post-World War Two Finland manifested in a shortage of teachers. In 1950 it…
Kaleva Church is based on the winning entry by Reima Pietilä and Raili Paatelainen in an…
Kannonkoski church is situated near Viitasaari in Central Finland. On its completion the building dominated the…
Already in the 1940s there were plans to build a new type of studio theatre in…
Founded in 1937, the National Pensions Institute was initially responsible for the Finnish pension system, though…
Beyond Helsinki, the main focus of architectural activity of architect Hilding Ekelund was the town of…
Karjasilta is a residential area in Oulu dating from the post-war reconstruction period. The area of…
The architectural competition for the main building of the Helsinki School of Economics (nowadays Aalto University…
The improvement in housing conditions had in the 1920s become an issue of international interest in…
Bengt Lundsten won the town planning competition for the Kortepohja residential area in 1964. He wanted…
The modernist bank building designed by P.E. Blomstedt was in its time boldly exceptional. Blomstedt did…
The City of Kouvola has grown around a railway junction station that served the wood-processing industry…
An invited architecture competition for the Hyvon-Kudeneule Oy textile factory, offices and residential area was held…
The cultural multipurpose building has been a familiar building type, both internationally and domestically, in the…
The Serpentine House was one of the State Housing Board’s first subsidised apartment blocks, and was…
In 1933 architecture students Arvo Aalto, Niilo Kokko, Olavi Laisaari, Viljo Revell and Heimo Riihimäki founded…
Lastenlinna [“Children’s Castle”] children’s hospital was founded in 1918 for single mothers and their children by…
1927 was a year of record building construction in Turku and many of the old buildings…
A change in the law in 1973 regarding daycare provision increased the need to build new…
Before Helsinki-Malmi Airport was built, Finland lagged much behind the rest of Europe, because civilian passengers…
The birth of the post-Second World War baby-boomer generation as well as the rapid growth of…
Built on a former industrial site and landfill, Merihaka is a representative example of urban development…
The Metsätalo building (“Forest House”) sits as an extension of the monumental neoclassical centre of Helsinki…
Murikka is architecturally a very high-quality example among the many training and course centres built in…
The landscape of Central Finland, with its lakes and hills, held great significance for Alvar Aalto…
Myyrmäki Church is located in a suburb of Vantaa built during the 1960s and 1970s. The…
Nakkila church, built with a bequest from the industrialist J. W. Suominen, is one of the…
The Olympic Village was built for the 1940 Helsinki Olympic Games and it was presented to…
The buildings constructed for the Olympic Games in Helsinki comprise also from an international perspective a…
The Otaniemi chapel was built in the middle of the so-called “Student Village”, the Helsinki University…
Finland introduced legislation in 1965 aimed at the development of higher education, which resulted in the…
Built in the middle of the wilderness of northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu, the hydro-power plants along…
The Oulunsalo Municipal Offices, situated south of the city of Oulu near the airport, is the…
Tuberculosis was the most significant public health problem in Finland in the early 1900s. The treatment,…
Teollisuuskeskus Oy (Industrial Centre Ltd), created by the Confederation of Finnish Industry and Employers, organised in…
The institute for the training of bank staff located in Vuosaari, Helsinki, is one of the…
The Parainen funerary chapel is minimalist and simple, somewhat like a small Greek temple. It was…
Pihlajamäki was one of the first regional construction projects in Finland and the first area in…
On its completion, the Pohja Life Insurance commercial building attracted both positive and negative reactions, because…
Education was seen as having an important role in Finland during the post-war reconstruction period. Educational…
Independent Finland founded its own defence force institutions in the period between the two world wars.…
A large number of churches and chapels were built in Finland in the 1960s influenced by…
The surrounding urban space – a new commercial street in the Helsinki city centre – was…
The onset and rapid increase of car traffic in the 20th century revolutionized Finland in many…
Sahanmäki is an architecturally cohesive sub-area of the city district of Maunula, a residential suburb dating…
The inhabitants of Salla faced both devastation and plight on returning to their homes following the…
Founded in 1920, the central task of the building department of the Central Finnish Cooperative Society…
The Seinäjoki Civic Centre came about on the basis of two architecture competitions. In 1951 Alvar…
The Sibelius Museum is part of the Åbo Akademi University’s campus on the eastern shore of…
The first buildings representing Functionalism in Northern Finland are from the early 1930s, the most important…
The Rauma offices and warehouse of the Central Finnish Cooperative Society (SOK) is located centrally at…
The design brief for the Trade School for War Veterans was at the time quite new…
Standing on the same plot in the centre of Turku as the Standard Apartment Building are…
The Sunila area is regarded as a pure Functionalist totality from the 1930s. The industrial community…
The history of Säynätsalo as an industrial community originated with Johan Parviainen who established a saw…
The Helsinki district of Taka-Töölö shows the gradual breakthrough of the urban planning ideals of Functionalism.…
The Population and Family Welfare Foundation was founded in 1941 and began to have an influence…
It was decided in 1948 to transfer Helsinki University of Technology from its location in Hietalahti…
The Tempo residential, office and commercial building was built in the very centre of Tampere, at…
The Temppeliaukio Church is located amidst the residential blocks of the city district of Töölö, built…
After moving to live in Turku in 1927 Aalto got to know Arvo Ketonen, the managing…
The commission for the design of the Helsinki Workers’ Institute annex was awarded to Aulis Blomstedt…
After the Second World War, the Vaalijala institution for the mentally disabled, part of the Finnish…
The concrete churches of the 1960s are a special phenomenon in Finnish 20th century architecture. During…
A major restructuring of the Finnish Defence Forces took place in the 1950s and 1960s when…
Ruusuvuori’s starting point for the design of the printing works was the production process itself. The…
Vierumäki, the Finnish Sports Institute, is a national sports coaching and educational institute, and is often…
Aino and Alvar Aalto designed Villa Mairea for their close friends Maire and Harry Gullichsen. It…
After the Second World War, the Finnish state-owned forestry company Enso-Gutzeit wanted to develop a new…
The undisputed culmination of Erik Bryggman’s career is the Resurrection Chapel in Turku, inspired by nature…
Åbo Akademi University’s first purpose-built building was located in the culturally and historically important milieu of…