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The Jugendstil style in Finland is characterised by flowing lines and the incorporation of nationalistic-mythological symbols - especially those taken from the national epic, Kalevala - mostly taken from nature and even medieval architecture, but also contemporary sources elsewhere in Europe and even the USA (e.g. H.H. Richardson and the ...
Architecture in Finland by period or style (11 C) Buildings and structures in Finland (9 C, 4 P) + Finnish architecture writers (11 P) 0–9. 20th-century ...
Category: Architecture in Finland by period or style. 7 languages. Aragonés; ... Renaissance Revival architecture in Finland (4 P) This page was ...
Parliament of Finland, Helsinki (1926–1931) by Johan Sigfrid Sirén. Haugesund City Hall (1922–1931) by Gudolf Blakstad and Herman Munthe-Kaas.. Certain architects had reached the culmination of their careers already when the National Romantic style came, but their latter works were in the Nordic Classicism style (e.g. Carl Westman), the career of others culminated with Nordic Classicism ...
The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the National Romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often considered to be a form of Art Nouveau. The National Romantic style spread across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, as well as Russia, where it also appeared ...
Finnish medieval stone churches can be classified in three groups by their architectural style. The first group includes the oldest churches found exclusively in the Åland Islands. The second group is mainly built in the areas of Southwest Finland, Uusimaa and the southern parts of Tavastia.
Puu-Käpylä workers' housing area, Helsinki Convergent apartment buildings, dating from 1924 to 1925, on Hauhontie in Vallila, Helsinki. Martti Välikangas (born Martti Buddén, August 1, 1893, County of Kuopio – May 9, 1973, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect renowned for the design of so-called "Puu-Käpylä" [Wood-Käpylä], the Garden City housing area in Käpylä near Helsinki, designed ...
Helsinki's Art Nouveau style is also featured in central residential districts, such as Katajanokka and Ullanlinna. [75] An important architect of the Finnish Art Nouveau style was Eliel Saarinen, whose architectural masterpiece was the Helsinki Central Station.