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Viipuri: see Vyborg Vyborg (vĭ`bərk), Finnish Viipuri, Swed. Viborg, city (1989 pop. 81,000), NW European Russia, NW of St. ..... Click the link for more information. , Russia. |
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initiated in 2000, takes as its starting point that city's municipal library, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1927 and completed in 1935, symbolizing the modernist aspirations of a newly independent Finnish state (Vyborg, then Finland's second largest city, was called Viipuri at the time, changing names when annexed by the Soviets in 1944). A single-storey foyer leads to the hall, which is at first constrained in height, then generously expands upwards under a curving cherrywood ceiling that seems like the one in Aalto's Viipuri library lecture theatre waltzing. Wright is represented by 'the purest Usonian' house, the Rosenbaum of 1939, and Aalto by the Viipuri Library. |
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