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Pohjola Insurance Company, Aleksanterinkatu 44, Helsinki: detail of gargoyles by the main entrance
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NOTES: Pohjola was the first fire insurance building in Finland and the first to be constructed of fire-resistant materials (ie native stone - granite). It was also the first true National Romantic building by the architectural trio of Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen. The majority of the sculptural work on the building is by Hilda Flodin.
Pohjola Insurance Company, Aleksanterinkatu 44, Helsinki: detail of the upper facade window bay and sculpture
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NOTES: Pohjola was the first fire insurance building in Finland and the first to be constructed of fire-resistant materials (ie native stone - granite). It was also the first true National Romantic building by the architectural trio of Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen. The majority of the sculptural work on the building is by Hilda Flodin.
Pohjola Insurance Company, Aleksanterinkatu 44, Helsinki: facade detail
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NOTES: Pohjola was the first fire insurance building in Finland and the first to be constructed of fire-resistant materials (ie native stone - granite). It was also the first true National Romantic building by the architectural trio of Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen. The majority of the sculptural work on the building is by Hilda Flodin.
Pohjola Insurance Company, Aleksanterinkatu 44, Helsinki: facade detail with carved figures
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NOTES: Pohjola was the first fire insurance building in Finland and the first to be constructed of fire-resistant materials (ie native stone - granite). It was also the first true National Romantic building by the architectural trio of Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen. The majority of the sculptural work on the building is by Hilda Flodin.
Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm: the crematorium see from across the processional way, with the Chapel of the Holy Cross on the right
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NOTES: Asplund and Lewerentz won the competition for the new cemetery in 1915 and spent the next 25 years developing the cemetery in a landscape of wooded pines populated by small chapels. The granite cross was designed by Asplund in 1939.
Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm: the granite Way of the Cross with the Chapel of the Holy Cross beyond
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NOTES: Asplund and Lewerentz won the competition for the new cemetery in 1915 and spent the next 25 years developing the cemetery in a landscape of wooded pines populated by small chapels. The granite cross was designed by Asplund in 1939.
Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm: the granite Way of the Cross with the Chapel of the Holy Cross beyond
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NOTES: Asplund and Lewerentz won the competition for the new cemetery in 1915 and spent the next 25 years developing the cemetery in a landscape of wooded pines populated by small chapels. The granite cross was designed by Asplund in 1939.