Åbo Akademi University Book Tower
Åbo Akademi University’s first purpose-built building was located in the culturally and historically important milieu of…
Projects
Villa Mairea
Aino and Alvar Aalto designed Villa Mairea for their close friends Maire and Harry Gullichsen. It…
Turun Sanomat Building
After moving to live in Turku in 1927 Aalto got to know Arvo Ketonen, the managing…
Tempo House
The Tempo residential, office and commercial building was built in the very centre of Tampere, at…
Taka-Töölö Residential Area
The Helsinki district of Taka-Töölö shows the gradual breakthrough of the urban planning ideals of Functionalism.…
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…
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…
Pohja Life Insurance Commercial Building
On its completion, the Pohja Life Insurance commercial building attracted both positive and negative reactions, because…
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,…
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…
Nakkila Church
Nakkila church, built with a bequest from the industrialist J. W. Suominen, is one of the…
Metsätalo Building
The Metsätalo building (“Forest House”) sits as an extension of the monumental neoclassical centre of Helsinki…
Lasipalatsi Commercial Building
In 1933 architecture students Arvo Aalto, Niilo Kokko, Olavi Laisaari, Viljo Revell and Heimo Riihimäki founded…
Kannonkoski Church
Kannonkoski church is situated near Viitasaari in Central Finland. On its completion the building dominated the…
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.…
Hotel Aulanko
Many building projects were realised in Finland at the end of the 1930s serving the needs…
Helsinki-Malmi Airport
Before Helsinki-Malmi Airport was built, Finland lagged much behind the rest of Europe, because civilian passengers…
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 Defence Forces Buildings
Independent Finland founded its own defence force institutions in the period between the two world wars.…
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…
The Aalto House
Alvar and Aino Aalto designed for their family a detached house on a plot they had…