Finnish architect and designer ALVAR AALTO - Sunila pulp mill and residential area / Sunilan sellutehdas ja asuinalue (1936–38, 1947, 1951–54) - Sunila, Kotka, Finland - Time of shooting / kuvausajankohta 07/2019
Asuntohotelli/hostel Aallon Maja in Sunila (Kotka), Finland
Here you will see some pictures of Apartmenthotel Aallon Maja (aallonmaja.com). The building is designed by Alvar Aalto. Aallon Maja is located in Sunila (Kotka), which is the most important industrial and residential area designed by Alvar Aallto. At Asuntohotelli Aallon Maja you can find hostell type accommodation for low prices. It is suitable for working groups, sport groups, families and even tourists who are searching for rooms in Kotka - Hamina area. We have rooms with 2, 3, 4, and even 5 beds, totally for over 40 persons. We have beds, bedlinen, towels etc. ready in the rooms, fridge and TV in every room, normal and mini kitchen for common use, as well as sauna, showers and toilets. You can order breakfast from Art Café Aino which is logated at the basement of Aallon Maja. Threre you can find also Russian Art Center in Kotka (russianartcenter.net), Galleria Merilä (artmerila.com) and studio of artist Raija Merilä. So, Asuntohotelli Aallon Maja is a real art hostel. At Galleria Merilä you can find the special exhibition on erotic art with tens of paintings made by Rainja Merilä. Our second place - Asuntohotelli Hotel Petkele (petkele.net) - is an apartmenthotel in Hamina (Summa), Finland. It is located about 20 km from Aallon Maja near Google Data Center and Port of HaminaKotka.Hotel Petkele is also designed by Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. His furniture designs were considered Scandinavian Modern. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware. The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.
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