Janne Tuunanen captures modernist architecture of renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Janne Tuunanen captures modernist architecture of renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Photographer Janne Tuunanen captures the sharp modernist architecture of the recently renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Finland in his latest series
The modernist architecture of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium has recently been given a makeover. The elegant piece of design was originally created in the 1930s, but sadly not used until the Summer Olympic Games of 1952, due to World War II. Now, following a recent, four-year-long renovation by a team of architects including K2S, NRT, White Arkitekter and Wessel de Jonge, the stadium has reopened and has been lovingly documented by New York based photographer Janne Tuunanen in tribute.
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The Royal Festival Hall, London, is an enduring legacy of the cultural optimism of the Festival of Britain, seven decades ago. In 1948, a hand-picked team of architects was brought in by London county council (LCC) to design the concert hall on the South Bank in which the festival would hold its main show. Among them were eight members selected by their former tutor, Peter Moro, at Regent Street Polytechnic, who, along with Leslie Martin, led the project. Trevor Dannatt, the last survivor of the group, has died aged 101.
Dannatt detailed the staircases and glazed screens of the foyers, along with some of the external windows and last-minute furnishings. He explained how each balustrade has a notch running up its centre for one’s thumb; how the main foyer stopped short of the riverfront for a double-height restaurant with its own spiral stair; that the columns on the main floor were lined in timber and how each element has a