CITY GUIDES – exploring architecture
Helsinki Guide
- Capital city, Finland, with long coastline
- Nordic modernist architecture inspired by nature
- Key buildings by Alvar Aalto spanning the entire length of his career
- Historic neo-classical and jugendstil architecture
- Formal innovations in timber architecture
Marseille Guide
- French port city opening on the Mediterranean
- Forward looking architecture mixed with Baroque and Byzantine traditions
- l’Unité d’Habitation by Le Corbusier
- New harbour area with great cultural buildings