Alvar Aalto first won the public design competition for the Viipuri Municipal Library in 1927 with a classical proposal. However, by the time the construction work on the library finally began in 1934, the design had changed considerably. In its final form, the Viipuri Library is an early example of Aalto’s humanistic architecture. In the exhibition the library was presented in its original form. The aim was to publicize the restoration project and to help collect funds for its realization.
Viipuri Library is an early masterpiece of the Aalto office from the 1930s. Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio-Aalto won the design competition for the new ...
Completed in 1935 in Vyborg, Russia. Despite being one of the seminal works of modern Scandinavian architecture, Alvar Aalto’s Viipuri Library languished in relative obscurity for...
The Viipuri Library by architect Alvar Aalto was built in City Park, Vyborg (Viipuri), Russia in 1933 - 1935.
Всемирно известный шедевр функционализма и единственная в России работа знаменитого финна Алвара Аалто, два года назад открывшаяся после затяжной реставрации. Библиотека была открыта 13 октября 1935 года и вскоре стала известна во всём мире как эталон библиотечного здания. Она просуществовала в…
For almost twenty years, The Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri Library worked to restore Alvar Aalto's rarely seen Viipuri library. Located in Vyborg, Russia, which was under Finnish rule when the library was originally conceived (hence its occasional moniker of the Vyborg Library)...
Image 33 of 44 from gallery of AD Classics: Viipuri Library / Alvar Aalto. Photograph by Denis Esakov
The World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize has been given to a Finnish committee responsible for restoring architect Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library.
Image 3 of 44 from gallery of AD Classics: Viipuri Library / Alvar Aalto. Photograph by Denis Esakov
Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia, built between 1927 and 1935, has recently been restored.
Image 16 of 28 from gallery of Healing Through Design: The Story Behind Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium. Paimio Sanatorium / Alvar Aalto. Image © Leon via Flickr under CC BY 2.0
Biblioteca di Viipuri, 1930 - 1935, Vyborg, Russia. Disegni CAD 2D dwg piante, sezioni e prospetti scala 1:100
Alvar Aalto won the design competition for the new Vyborg Central library in 1927 with a proposal to which he gave the pseudonym ‘W.W.W.’
1927-1935 Auditorium of a municipal library. It's famous because of its acoustic.
With its cobblestoned streets and medieval castle, the picturesque town of Vyborg makes the perfect day trip from St Petersburg
Born in 1898 in Kuortane, Alvar Aalto was profoundly influenced on an early age by his father who's work as an ordnance survey gave Aalto a deep understanding of the natural terrain and the merge of the building itself with it surroundings. His style varied from a classical influence due to its University of Technology Helsinki period to a functionalist character in its Turku living time.
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The restoration work on the Alvar Aalto-designed library in Vyborg (Viipuri), Russia, has now been completed. The comprehensive restoration of this key work of modern architecture, which has taken more than twenty years, was begun in 1991. During the last three years, the work has been speeded up by financial assistance given by Russia to […]
