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Säynätsalo Town Hall

The Säynätsalo Town Hall is a multifunction building complex, consisting of two main buildings organised around a central courtyard: a U-shaped council chamber and town hall with administrative offices, and a community library with flats. The Town Hall was designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for the municipality of Säynätsalo in Central Finland. Aalto received the commission after a design contest in 1949, and…

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1950

Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

Civic building

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