When Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library was completed in 1935, the land it sat on was Finnish. A few years later, after World War II, Vyborg and the surrounding Karelian region became part of the ...

Despite being one of the seminal works of modern Scandinavian architecture, Alvar Aalto’s Viipuri Library languished in relative obscurity for three-quarters of a century until its media ...

The library was opened in 1935, when Vyborg was still a part of Finland. It is considered an icon of international modernist architecture, and among the most important pre-war Aalto buildings. For a ...

His Vyborg Library is considered the first manifestation of regional modernism and Finlandia Hall, completed in 1971, is a beautiful, sloped-roof event hub in the center of Helsinki. In his later ...

Vyborg has been frequently compelled to alter ... The verdant space of Red Square has the City Library, built in 1933 by the most famous of Finnish architects, Alvar Aalto. Sadly, this acclaimed ...

War and changing borders saw the town the structure was designed for change both countries and names – from Viipuri to Vyborg. It is now known locally as the Central City Alvar Aalto Library.

In the relative peace of interwar Europe, Finnish architect Otto-Iivari Meurman recorded the discovery of a spiral staircase leading to an underground chamber of the centuries-old Vyborg Castle.

The front and side façade of the Vyborg Library, designed by Alvar Aalto and completed in 1935. It sits on land that was once part of Finland, then the Soviet Union, and is now in the Russian ...