ARCHITECT

ALVAR AALTO

PROJECT

SÄYNÄTSALO TOWN HALL 1951

The Säynätsalo Town Hall is a multifunction building complex, consisting of two main buildings organised around a centralised courtyard; a U-shaped council chamber and town hall with administrative offices and a community library with and flats. The Town Hall was designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for the municipality of Säynätsalo (merged with the municipality of Jyväskylä in 1993) in Central Finland. Aalto received the commission after a design contest in 1949, and the building was completed in December 1951.


The town hall is considered one of the most important buildings Aalto designed in his career.

source: Wikipedia