(Johannes Romppanen, Risto Musta/© Paimio Sanatorium Foundation) Tuberculosis patients at Paimio were not to be envied, but they did get to sleep outside in fur-lined sleeping bags on a rooftop ...

View Early cantilevered armchair with stepped base, model no. 31, designed for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio by Alvar Aalto on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Alvar Aalto.

When Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their sanitarium in Paimio, Finland, in 1933, the tuberculosis hospital represented not only an inflection point in the young architects’ careers, but also a ...

Aino and Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium (1933) is perhaps the most notable example, and certainly one Triboro’s architects would have known. The commission to build Triboro was granted ...

Some of these palliative care facilities also served as architectural experiment grounds, like the Aaltos–designed Paimio Sanatorium, which commanded worldwide attention with its machine-like ...

On a tour of southern Finland, seeing the enduring masterworks of architect Alvar Aalto. When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined ...

Sites Unseen: From the tuberculosis sanatorium, an architectural style is born. Fresh air, sunshine and the Gardiner hut. By John Harner April 14, 2025 No Comments.

The intersection of architecture and medicine profoundly shaped modernist design, where transparency, light, and air became essential tools in the pursuit of health.Emerging from the tuberculosis ...

The site of a former tuberculosis sanatorium on the border between Wayne and Haledon may become Passaic County's newest park. County officials this week confirmed they are in the preliminary ...

View Side Table, Model No. 75/915, designed for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio, Finland, circa 1931 By Aalto Alvar; birch bentwood; 23 7 ⁄ 8 x 23 5 ⁄ 8 x 19 5 ⁄ 8 in. (60.6 x 60 x 49.8 cm.); .

Stranger than fiction: Nopeming Sanatorium's history of tuberculosis, ghost hunts and ownership scandals Built deep within a wooded area on the outskirts of Duluth, the topography of the area was ...