Vyborg Library (Finnish: Viipurin kaupunginkirjasto) is a library in Vyborg, Russia, built during the time of Finnish sovereignty (1918 to 1940-44), before...
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Vyborg (/ˈviːbɔːrɡ/; Russian: Выборг, IPA: [ˈvɨbərk]; Finnish: Viipuri, IPA: [ˈʋiːpuri]; Swedish: Viborg, IPA: [ˈvǐːbɔrj] ) is a town and the administrative...
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exactly why the underground libraries began. Another problem was the low level of literacy of the masses. Vyborg Library, designed by Alvar Aalto, was...
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1933 design for the model 60 stool, which was intended for use in the Vyborg Library. Aalto notoriously tested the durability of his design by repeatedly...
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his most important early designs — designed at the same time as the Vyborg Library. Aalto and his wife Aino designed all of the sanatorium's furniture...
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statue was lost in the Winter War. The statue was 1993–2009 inside Vyborg Library Tarkiainen, Kari (2010). Ruotsin itämaa. Helsinki: Svenska litteratursällskapet...
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birch boards in a vertical arrangement. His Vyborg Library, built in what was then Viipuri (it became Vyborg after Soviet annexation in 1944), is acclaimed...
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often held in key modernist buildings, as for instance at Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library (2003 ISC/T seminar), Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt's Van Nelle...
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previously involved in the conservation of the modernist monument, the Vyborg Library. Tatiana Tsareva, a Russian expert, was responsible for documentary...
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alteration of Alvar Aalto’s buildings, the longest-lasting task being the Vyborg Library restoration project (1927–35). Elissa Aalto also played a sizeable role...
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