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Alvar Aalto The Stora Enso headquarters is an office building located in the Katajanokka neighbourhood of central Helsinki , Finland , completed in 1962. [ 1 ] It is notable for having been designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto .
The Studio Aalto is a house in the Tiilimäki neighbourhood of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, which Alvar Aalto designed during 1955–56 to be the studio of his architect bureau. [1] Due to a large number of commissions, the office needed more space in which to work.
The Aaltos designed and built a joint house-office (1935–36) for themselves in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, but later (1954–56) had a purpose-built office erected in the same neighbourhood – now the former is a "home museum" and the latter the premises of the Alvar Aalto Academy.
Alvar Aalto and his wife, Elissa Aalto, won the follow-up competition in 1959, which also included plans for a library, a theatre, and a state office building. The town hall was constructed in 1961–1962 and the library in 1964–1965. [5] A parish center, also designed by Aalto, was built next to the church in 1965–1966. [4]
The Aalto House, [1] the home of academician Alvar Aalto, is located in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland at 20, Riihitie. [2] The house is part of the Alvar Aalto Museum , which functions in two cities, Jyväskylä and Helsinki.
Rautatalo (Swedish: Järnhuset) is an office building in central Helsinki, Finland, completed in 1955, and notable for having been designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. [3] The building is based on Aalto's winning entry, Casa, to a 1951 design contest. [2]
The Kaufmann Conference Center was designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for the architecture professor Edgar Kaufmann Jr..The conference hall is on the 12th floor of 809 United Nations Plaza, originally the headquarters of the Institute of International Education (IIE), at First Avenue and 45th Street in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [1]
The Defence Corps Building (Finnish: Suojeluskuntatalo), also known as the Government Building (Finnish: Valtiontalo), [2] is a public building located in central Jyväskylä, Finland, designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, and completed in 1929. [1]