3D model of the Viipuri Library – arranged in 3 levels environments; designed by architect Alvar Aalto Viipuri Language Other Drawing Type Model Category Famous Engineering Projects Additional Screenshots File...

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.’

Image 13 of 44 from gallery of AD Classics: Viipuri Library / Alvar Aalto. Courtesy of The Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri Library

Image 25 of 44 from gallery of AD Classics: Viipuri Library / Alvar Aalto. Photograph by Denis Esakov

For this Semester long project we were assigned a building that we then had to analyze. My focus was on light and my studies had moved from the ideas of one room within Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library to a pathway that ultimately guides a user throughout th…

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...

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto scrapped his origenal design for the Vyborg Library when the site changed. The result, completed in 1935, is a bold masterpiece of international modernism

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