Aalto Center

Aalto Center is the executive and cultural middle of the City of Seinajoki, Finland. It comprises six buildings, designed with the aid of Alvar Aalto and mainly finished among 1960 and 1968. The middle represents one in all Aalto's maximum vital works and is remarkable in Finland or even across the world as an architectural complete. The timber plan of the middle is within the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. An architectural competition changed into prepared in 1951 for the layout of Seinajoki's new church. Aalto's entry, named "Cross Of The Plains", gained the opposition, even though it passed the location set inside the opposition rules.

It took numerous years earlier than construction commenced; the church become subsequently built among 1957 and 1960. In 1958, because the church turned into being built, the city of Seinajoki prepared another architectural opposition for the layout of a new city corridor for a domain next to the church. Alvar Aalto and his spouse, Elissa Aalto, won the observe-up competition in 1959, which also blanketed plans for a library, a theatre, and a kingdom workplace constructing.