The hospital has 370 beds and was threatened with closure in ... the mobile industry’s fallen giant, Nokia; and architect Alvar Aalto, who left behind a formidable legacy of stark, lopsided modernist ...

The venue for the Nordic prime ministers’ meeting, Paimio Sanatorium, was designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto. The building is known as a global landmark of functionalist architecture. It was completed ...

A lounger made in 1938 from slats of lacquered birch by brilliant Finnish designer Aino Aalto, wife of architect Alvar Aalto ... winning building at Ninewells Hospital for the support of people ...

When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium ... After more than 80 years as a working hospital, it opened to the public for visits in 2021; last year it began ...

a guest room at the former hospital. From left: Courtesy of Paimio Sanatorium; MAIJA HOLMA/COURTESY OF AALTO2 MUSEUM AND ALVAR AALTO FOUNDATION From left: Armchair 41 “Paimio”; the Aalto2 Museum ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “The future almost never unfolds in the way that everyone expects,” says Joseph Grima. The architect ...

Among the architects who heeded the call was the 30-year-old Alvar Aalto. Aalto was already one of Finland ... He had recently completed the Alajärvi Municipal Hospital, an unassuming low-rise ...

In its materiality, facade rhythm, and interior finishes, the new acute-care hospital echoes Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium, completed in 1932. At University Children’s Hospital of Zurich ...

But it's never staged a show quite like 'Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban'. It's the first time the great Finnish Modernist architect, who died in 1976, has been honoured with a major ...

The Paimio Sanatorium Foundation was founded in 2020 by the Hospital District of Southwest Finland, the State of Finland, the Alvar Aalto Foundation, the Municipality of Paimio, and the City of Turku, ...

The shows zoom into the enduring – and possibly unexpected – legacy of Finnish modernist architecture master Alvar Aalto on the culture of skateboarding. In 1939, Aalto – in collaboration with his ...

The midcentury gem that is the House of Culture in Helsinki is one of Alvar Aalto's masterpieces - an iconic event space conceived as a place for performance and the arts and imbued with the modernist ...