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Helsinki (6)

We headed out into the deep suburbs to see the housing schemes originally developed for the planned 1940s Olympics:- And a later phase added in the late 1940s for tye 1952 Olympics. We particularly admired the local allotments:- And the wooden houses fron the 1920s  in Puu-Käpylä:-

Helsinki (5)

Yesterday afternoon, we went to the Kulttuurisauna in Merihaka for Otto’s talk on ‘Holidays in Scandinavia: Post-War British Architects and Nordic Exchange’. It was a charming, small, slightly rustic pavilion which holds a series of architectural talks:-