The Aalto Siilo
The Aalto Siilo and a Provenance Projected seminar was the reason for coming to Oulu. The Siilo is smaller than expected, although not without monumentality. Still in its raw postindustrial state. It was completed in 1931, so is a very early work by Alvar Aalto, but hard to square with the other works at this…
Oulu
I made it to Oulu – not completely straightforwardly. This morning, we had a tour of the city, starting in the centre with the City Theatre, the result of an architectural competition in 1962:- The Central Library, which opened ten years later than the theatre, in 1982:- The cathedral is at the heart of the…
Sir Roy Strong CH (4)
It’s Roy Strong’s birthday today. 91. I remembered that somewhere in our family album was a picture I took of him at The Laskett. Here he is, circa 2000:-
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