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Vyborg

Russia
coordinates: 60.7089539 28.7474632

Building names(s): Vyborg Library / The Central City Alvar Aalto Library

Architect/Designer: Alvar Aalto

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Last update: 26 April, 2011 | Suggested By LT

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1. on 18 Aug 2010 Alvar Aalto on the design of the Vyborg Library

   Quote: When I designed the Viipuri City Library (and I had plenty of time, a whole five years), I spent long periods getting my range, as it were, with naive drawings. I drew all kinds of fantastic mountain landscapes, with slopes lit by many suns in different positions, which gradually gave rise to the main idea of the building. The architectural framework of the library comprises several reading and lending areas stepped at different levels, with the administrative and supervisory centre at the peak. My childlike drawings were only indirectly linked with architectural thinking, but they eventually led to an interweaving of the section and ground plan, and to a kind of unity of horizontal and vertical construction. (Alvar Aalto, “The Trout and the Stream”, 1947)

2. on 18 Aug 2010 wikipedia

   The library, built in 1933–35 is considered one of the first manifestation of “regional modernism”.[2] It is particularly famous for its wave-shaped ceiling in the auditorium, the shape of which, Aalto argued, was based on acoustic studies.[3] On completion the library was known as Viipuri Library, but after the Second World War was renamed the Nadezhda Krupskaya Municipal Library. Nowadays it is known as The Central City Alvar Aalto Library.