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Viipuri Library

Alvar Aalto – Viborg – Competition 1927, Construction, 1930-1935

The library of Viipuri (also called Alvar Aalto library, is the municipal library of the Russian city of Vyborg, built to a design by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Before the cession of the city to the Soviet Union in 1940, at the end of the winter war , the city had the Finnish name of Viipuri.

The Viipuri library derives from the juxtaposition of two parallel and staggered building blocks between them: the larger block contains reading rooms, the children's library, a magazine and newspaper room and the book distribution desk, while the smaller block , of elongated shape, includes an archive, a small auditorium and administrative offices. At the lower level there is the loan room in the upper one the reading room. The library included amphitheater-shaped reading rooms, a small auditorium and offices. The building, built in.....Wikipedia...>>

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