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- A Century of Finnish Architecture - Illustrated article for Virtual Finland by Marja-Riitta Norri, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture.
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/arkkitehtuuri.html
- Finnish Architecture in the 1990s - A selection of pictures of the best in Finnish new architecture.
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/archi_jt1.html
- Functionalism and the City of Viipuri - A study of modernist architecture in the former Finnish city of Viipuri, including Viipuri Municipal Library by Alvar Aalto.
www.greatgridlock.net/Viipuri/viipuri.html
- Helsinki University of Technology Department of Architecture - Information about the school's history, courses and the Finnish tradition of teaching architecture.
www.hut.fi/Yksikot/Osastot/A
- Helsinki's Senate Square - Notable Neo-Classical ensemble designed by Carl Ludvig Engel (1778-1840) for the new capital chosen in 1812. Expandable photographs, 360-degree panorama and history written for Virtual Finland by Frank Hellstén.
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/senaatti.html
- House of Henrik Govinius, Helsinki - Virtual Museum of Helsinki provides a 3D model of this merchant house destroyed by fire in 1808 from excavations and the description in its fire insurance.
www.helsinkiarena2000.fi/maailmat/virtmuse/english/index2.html
- Mäntyniemi - Photographs and details of the dramatic new official residence of the president of Finland, designed by husband and wife Reima and Raili Pietilä. Raili describes their aims and inspirations.
www.tpk.fi/eng/institution/mantyniemi.html
- Medieval Castles in Finland - Beautiful photographs from Virtual Finland, with readable history by Dr. Carl Jacob Gardberg, State archaeologist.
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/castles.html
- Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen - Biography and a presentation of the work of these two leading Finnish architects by Marja-Riitta Norri, director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, for Virtual Finland.
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/heik_komo.html
- Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Finland - St. Olaf's Castle was founded in 1475 by Erik Axelsson Tott. Official site of the National Board of Antiquities has beautiful photographs, brief history and visitor information.
www.nba.fi/CASTLES/OLOF/Infoeng.htm
- Pekka Helin and Tuomo Siitonen - Marja-Riitta Norri, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, writes about the works of these two leading Finnish architects.
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/helin_siit.html
- Petäjävesi Old Church - Frank Hellstén describes this World Heritage example of 18th-century Finnish wood architecture for Virtual Finland. Includes's Kari Palsila's 360-degree panorama photographs.
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/petajav.html
- Sederholm House - The 1757 stone-built house of merchant Johan Sederholm is home to a Helsinki City Museum exhibition, which provides this imaginative web-site using quotations from Sederholm's autobiography as glimpses of 18th-century Helsinki.
www.hel.fi/kaumuseo/sederh/html_eng/sseder.html
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