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Kallio Church

Kallio Church (Finnish: Kallion kirkko, Swedish: Berghälls kyrka) is a Lutheran church in the Kallio district of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by Lars Sonck and represents National Romanticism with Art Nouveau influences. The National Romantic style appears in the use of traditional Finnish materials and in the church's massive, gray granite body, as well as in nature-inspired colours and decorative motifs. Com…

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1912

Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Lars Sonck

1870-1956 · Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

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Lars Sonck was a Finnish architect associated with National Romantic and Nordic Classicist architecture, and one of the major early twentieth-century figures in Finland.

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Lars Sonck

studio · Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

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