Åbo Akademi University Book Tower
Åbo Akademi University’s first purpose-built building was located in the culturally and historically important milieu of…
Projects
Workers’ Institute Annex
The commission for the design of the Helsinki Workers’ Institute annex was awarded to Aulis Blomstedt…
Weilin & Göös Printing Works
Ruusuvuori’s starting point for the design of the printing works was the production process itself. The…
Vuoksenniska Church
After the Second World War, the Finnish state-owned forestry company Enso-Gutzeit wanted to develop a new…
Villa Mairea
Aino and Alvar Aalto designed Villa Mairea for their close friends Maire and Harry Gullichsen. It…
Vekaranjärvi Military Barracks
A major restructuring of the Finnish Defence Forces took place in the 1950s and 1960s when…
Vatiala Funerary Chapel
The concrete churches of the 1960s are a special phenomenon in Finnish 20th century architecture. During…
Vaalijala Rehabilitation Centre
After the Second World War, the Vaalijala institution for the mentally disabled, part of the Finnish…
University of Oulu, Linnanmaa
Finland introduced legislation in 1965 aimed at the development of higher education, which resulted in the…
Unitas Banking Institute
The institute for the training of bank staff located in Vuosaari, Helsinki, is one of the…
Turun Sanomat Building
After moving to live in Turku in 1927 Aalto got to know Arvo Ketonen, the managing…
Trade School for War Veterans
The design brief for the Trade School for War Veterans was at the time quite new…
Terraced Housing, Kortepohja Residential Area
Bengt Lundsten won the town planning competition for the Kortepohja residential area in 1964. He wanted…
Terästammi Housing
In 1990, the City of Tampere organized the last housing fair on the back of the economic…
Temppeliaukio Church
The Temppeliaukio Church is located amidst the residential blocks of the city district of Töölö, built…
Tempo House
The Tempo residential, office and commercial building was built in the very centre of Tampere, at…
Tapiola Garden City
The Population and Family Welfare Foundation was founded in 1941 and began to have an influence…
Taka-Töölö Residential Area
The Helsinki district of Taka-Töölö shows the gradual breakthrough of the urban planning ideals of Functionalism.…
Säynätsalo Town Hall
The history of Säynätsalo as an industrial community originated with Johan Parviainen who established a saw…
Sunila Industrial and Residential Area
The Sunila area is regarded as a pure Functionalist totality from the 1930s. The industrial community…
Standard Terrace Housing
The improvement in housing conditions had in the 1920s become an issue of international interest in…
Standard Apartment Building
Standing on the same plot in the centre of Turku as the Standard Apartment Building are…
Southwest Finland Agricultural Cooperative Building
1927 was a year of record building construction in Turku and many of the old buildings…
SOK Offices and Warehouse, Rauma
The Rauma offices and warehouse of the Central Finnish Cooperative Society (SOK) is located centrally at…
SOK Offices and Warehouse, Oulu
The first buildings representing Functionalism in Northern Finland are from the early 1930s, the most important…
Sibelius Museum
The Sibelius Museum is part of the Åbo Akademi University’s campus on the eastern shore of…
Serpentine House
The Serpentine House was one of the State Housing Board’s first subsidised apartment blocks, and was…
Seinäjoki Civic Centre
The Seinäjoki Civic Centre came about on the basis of two architecture competitions. In 1951 Alvar…
Salla Church
The inhabitants of Salla faced both devastation and plight on returning to their homes following the…
Sahanmäki Residential Area
Sahanmäki is an architecturally cohesive sub-area of the city district of Maunula, a residential suburb dating…
Rovaniemi Bus Station
The onset and rapid increase of car traffic in the 20th century revolutionized Finland in many…
Resurrection Chapel
The undisputed culmination of Erik Bryggman’s career is the Resurrection Chapel in Turku, inspired by nature…
Rautatalo Office Building
The surrounding urban space – a new commercial street in the Helsinki city centre – was…
Porthania Building
Education was seen as having an important role in Finland during the post-war reconstruction period. Educational…
Pohja Life Insurance Commercial Building
On its completion, the Pohja Life Insurance commercial building attracted both positive and negative reactions, because…
Pihlajamäki Residential Area
Pihlajamäki was one of the first regional construction projects in Finland and the first area in…
Parainen Funerary Chapel
The Parainen funerary chapel is minimalist and simple, somewhat like a small Greek temple. It was…
Paimio Sanatorium
Tuberculosis was the most significant public health problem in Finland in the early 1900s. The treatment,…
Oulunsalo Municipal Offices
The Oulunsalo Municipal Offices, situated south of the city of Oulu near the airport, is the…
Oulujoki Power Plants and Communities
Built in the middle of the wilderness of northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu, the hydro-power plants along…
Otaniemi Chapel
The Otaniemi chapel was built in the middle of the so-called “Student Village”, the Helsinki University…
Olympic Village and Games Village
The Olympic Village was built for the 1940 Helsinki Olympic Games and it was presented to…
Olympic Buildings
The buildings constructed for the Olympic Games in Helsinki comprise also from an international perspective a…
Niittykumpu Fire Station
Although a relatively small building, Niittykumpu Fire Station with its tower stands out as a landmark along…
National Pensions Institute
Founded in 1937, the National Pensions Institute was initially responsible for the Finnish pension system, though…
Nakkila Church
Nakkila church, built with a bequest from the industrialist J. W. Suominen, is one of the…
Myyrmäki Church
Myyrmäki Church is located in a suburb of Vantaa built during the 1960s and 1970s. The…
Muuratsalo Experimental House
The landscape of Central Finland, with its lakes and hills, held great significance for Alvar Aalto…
Murikka Metalworkers Federation Training Centre
Murikka is architecturally a very high-quality example among the many training and course centres built in…
Metsätalo Building
The Metsätalo building (“Forest House”) sits as an extension of the monumental neoclassical centre of Helsinki…
Merihaka Housing Area
Built on a former industrial site and landfill, Merihaka is a representative example of urban development…
Meilahti Primary School
The birth of the post-Second World War baby-boomer generation as well as the rapid growth of…
Länsi-Säkylä Daycare Centre
A change in the law in 1973 regarding daycare provision increased the need to build new…
Lastenlinna Children’s Hospital
Lastenlinna [“Children’s Castle”] children’s hospital was founded in 1918 for single mothers and their children by…
Lasipalatsi Commercial Building
In 1933 architecture students Arvo Aalto, Niilo Kokko, Olavi Laisaari, Viljo Revell and Heimo Riihimäki founded…
Laivapoika Housing
The Laivapoika housing comprises three six-storey wings, arranged as a semi-open block along the edges of a…
Lahti City Theatre
Lahti City Theatre is based on an architectural competition organised in 1973 won by Pekka Salminen with…
Kudeneule Factory
An invited architecture competition for the Hyvon-Kudeneule Oy textile factory, offices and residential area was held…
Kouvola City Hall
The City of Kouvola has grown around a railway junction station that served the wood-processing industry…
Karjasilta Residential Area
Karjasilta is a residential area in Oulu dating from the post-war reconstruction period. The area of…
Karjaa Water Tower
Beyond Helsinki, the main focus of architectural activity of architect Hilding Ekelund was the town of…
Kannonkoski Church
Kannonkoski church is situated near Viitasaari in Central Finland. On its completion the building dominated the…
Kaleva Church
Kaleva Church is based on the winning entry by Reima Pietilä and Raili Paatelainen in an…
Kajaani Police Station and Art Museum
Eino Pitkänen (1904–1955) moved to Kajaani in 1932 and founded Finland’s northernmost architectural office there in 1940.…
Jyväskylä University Seminaarinmäki Campus
The demographics in post-World War Two Finland manifested in a shortage of teachers. In 1950 it…
Industrial Centre
Teollisuuskeskus Oy (Industrial Centre Ltd), created by the Confederation of Finnish Industry and Employers, organised in…
Hyvinkää Church and Work Centre
The design of Hyvinkää church and work centre is based on the winning entry in a…
Huutoniemi Church
Aarno Ruusuvuori was commissioned to design the Huutoniemi church on the basis of an invited competition…
House of Culture
The cultural multipurpose building has been a familiar building type, both internationally and domestically, in the…
Hotel Mesikämmen
As people’s standard of living rose in Finland from the 1960s onwards, and leisure time, the use…
Hotel Aulanko
Many building projects were realised in Finland at the end of the 1930s serving the needs…
Heureka Science Centre
A science centre is an example of a new public building typology that materialised with the economic…
Helsinki-Malmi Airport
Before Helsinki-Malmi Airport was built, Finland lagged much behind the rest of Europe, because civilian passengers…
Helsinki University of Technology
It was decided in 1948 to transfer Helsinki University of Technology from its location in Hietalahti…
Helsinki School of Economics
The architectural competition for the main building of the Helsinki School of Economics (nowadays Aalto University…
Helsinki City Theatre
Helsinki City Theatre was founded in 1965, when the two workers’ theatres the Helsinki People’s Theatre…
Helsinki City Hall and Kluuvi Office Building
The restructuring of the urban block comprising the Helsinki City Hall was part of an attempt…
Haukilahti Water Tower
Water towers are an essential part of the Finnish post-war landscape undergoing urbanization. The Haukilahti water…
Futuro House
During the decades of technological progress and the belief in a better future that followed the…
Finnish Sports Institute
Vierumäki, the Finnish Sports Institute, is a national sports coaching and educational institute, and is often…
Finnish Savings Bank
The modernist bank building designed by P.E. Blomstedt was in its time boldly exceptional. Blomstedt did…
Finnish National Theatre Small Stage
Already in the 1940s there were plans to build a new type of studio theatre in…
Finnish Defence Forces Buildings
Independent Finland founded its own defence force institutions in the period between the two world wars.…
Finlandia Hall
In 1962 the City of Helsinki commissioned Alvar Aalto to design a congress and concert building…
Erik Bryggman’s Villas
Erik Bryggman’s villas are perhaps his most personal architectural works. Building locations for villas in the…
Dipoli Building
Dipoli, the Helsinki University of Technology Student Union building, is an integral part of the Otaniemi…
Chapel of The Holy Cross
A large number of churches and chapels were built in Finland in the 1960s influenced by…
BePOP Shopping Centre
Finland in the 1980s was a time of strong economic growth and accelerating consumerism. This was…
Bensow House
The offices for the agency established in 1889 by commercial counsellor Wilhelm Bensow (1864-1949), were completed…
The Atrium Apartment Building and Hotel Hospits Betel
In Erik Bryggman’s time Turku became the centre of Modernist architecture in Finland. As the long-standing…
Alko Rajamäki Factory
The Rajamäki factory community originated in 1888 when a yeast factory was founded in Nurmijärvi. The…
Aitta Cooperative Shop, Sauvo
Founded in 1920, the central task of the building department of the Central Finnish Cooperative Society…
A. Ahlström Paper Mill
The manufacturing processes of the wood-processing industry underwent development during the 1970s such that they required…
The Aalto House
Alvar and Aino Aalto designed for their family a detached house on a plot they had…