Helsinki, Finland. Architect: Alvar Aalto Date: 1971
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· Overview: First presented in 1961, and which included a series of cultural buildings aligned along the Töölönlahti bay which penetrates the city centre, and completed in 1971. The plan for the Congress Wing was drawn up in 1970 and it was constructed between 1973 and 75.
· Planning analysis: Finlandia Hall represents a larger vision for the city; built on democratic values, cultural aspirations and strategic siting. Finlandia Hall can be viewed as a building with two sides, different in scale and character; one toward the bay (east) and the other toward Hesperia Park and Mannerheimintie street (west). Aalto thought that this area would provide a unique opportunity for the realization of an idea, originally suggested by Eliel Saarinen in 1917, for building a new traffic route known as Freedom Avenue (Vapaudenkatu) from the northern suburbs right into the heart of the city.
· The concept: Alvar Aalto believed that independent Finland needed a central square of its own in the new center of the city near the Parliament House, the symbol of the country’s independence granted in 1917. lt was a lucky coincidence that a large railway freight yard lay right in front of the Parliament and that plans were already in place to relocate it elsewhere.
· Materials: There is a similar twofold reason for the marble that Aalto chose to use both on the exterior, where it is contrasted with black granite, and in the interior. Marble for Aalto represented an important link with the culture of the Mediterranean, which he was keen to introduce into Finland.
· Critics: Apparently uniform and utterly wonderful bowed marble grid appears to have been a mistake, an outcome of the temperature extremes in Helsinki (I'm reminded of the Dali--esque images of failing façades from Jeffrey Inaba's talk at Postopolis regarding Kazakhstan's -40ºC to +40ºC, though it's not that bad here.)
· References:
1. ALVA R A A LTO & FinLAnDiA HALL
2. Alvar Aalto & Finlandia Hall,Göran Schildt,(Ph D Author of a biography on Alvar Aalto).
3. Article written by Dan Hill, World Design Congress 2009, Beijing.
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