Helsingfors Train Station


  • Caption
    View of Exterior - Entrance
Related person
Eliel Saarinen (architect)
Date
1904-1919
Location
Europe->Finland->Helsinki
Description
"Of all the work Eliel Saarinen did in Findland, Helsinki Railway Station is probably the best known building internationally and the one that has attracted most critical attention. Certainly, it must be considered an important work both in Saarinen's own output and in Finnish architecture in general around 1900. This is hardly surprising, as railway stations have always had great symbolic significance, and in Helsinki the station stands in an unusually prominent position. The competition held for the building in 1904 already played an important role in the development of Finnish architecture. Rarely has any event before or since aroused such fervent public debate about the forms and idioms of architecture in Finland." -- Hausen, M. (1990). Eliel Saarinen: Projects 1896-1923. Helsinki: Otava, p. 8.

Submitted by Keoni Fleming for ARCH 627.
Style/Period
1900s (1900 - 1909)
1910s (1910 - 1919)
Art Nouveau
Modern
Material
concrete
stonework
glass
iron
stone and/or rock
plant material
Source
Marika, H., Mikkola, K., Amberg, A-L., & Valto, T. (1990). Eliel Saarinen: Projects 1896-1923 (D. O'Rourke, M. Wynne-Ellis, & the English Centre, Trans.). Helsinki: Otava Pub. Co. p. 166