Step foot on Finnish soil and it’s just a matter of time before you start to understand how significant the architect and designer Alvar Aalto is to Finnish design culture. Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book from the grandson of the celebrated Finnish architects draws on never-before-published letters and photographs to tell ...

Mel Alvar stops talking mid-sentence. The Duluth Police Department is on the other line. This is one call she can return later, but they’re not all like that. Alvar is a regional navigator for Safe ...

Today the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) added ten new items from its backlog to the official roster of New York City landmarks. While the commission protected Dutch Colonial farmhouses, the ...

Architect Roger Duffy discusses his design for the new luxury residence on East 57th Street and its reference to the modernist master. Architect Roger Duffy, who designed Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's ...

When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined building must have looked like an emissary from the future, set down in a forest of fragrant ...

The new Aalto2 Museum, designed by A-Konsultit Architects, will showcase the cultural legacy of the architecture and design of renowned architect Alvar Aalto. The Museum will open to the public on 27 ...

When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined building must have looked like an emissary from the future, set down in a forest of fragrant ...

Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect and interior designer, widely regarded as one of the forebears of Nordic Modernism. He was born on February 3, 1898 in Kuortane, Finland and studied at the Helsinki ...

The Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017 was awarded for the overhaul of the Harald Herlin Learning Centre, which was originally designed by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto, along with ...