Fittingly for Furniture February, Alvar Aalto would have turned 118 this month, which has prompted Archinect to celebrate his paradigm-defining designs. We're not the only ones: the existing Alvar Aalto Museum and the Museum of Central Finland will be getting an extension (the winners of the competition can be viewed here: http://www.alvaraalto.fi/ruusupuisto). One of the proposals that didn't win features Aalto-specific materiality ("light color clay bricks in grid pattern for the floors and the circulation elements to the original masonry bricks walls in a way to match the colors but announce the new building with a different texture" according to a press release by the design firm Architensions). Here are renderings of Architensions' proposed museum extension:
And, just because we can, a quick tour through some of Aalto's masterful furniture work:
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I guess it would be appropriate to point out now, that the extension is the result of a competition, and the actual winners can be seen here:
http://www.alvaraalto.fi/ruusupuisto/#ruusupuistoen
Dig the proposal, by Antti Soini and Leo Lindroos for same project. Really even just this image...
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