Address: Erottajankatu, 00130 Helsinki, Finland Open Google map
Entrance fee: Viewable from the outside
Themes: Curiosity, Town plans
Website: Alvar Aalto Foundation
Erottaja Pavilion is one of Helsinki’s earliest Aalto-designed buildings. This small building intended as an emergency-shelter entrance is close to Helsinki’s city centre.
The Pavilion building is part of a larger plan for a traffic system for the Erottaja district. Aalto’s office won the architectural competition for the entire Erottaja district, but the traffic system was never implemented. The iron-framed pavilion is clad in bronze and granite.
Erottaja Pavilion, close to the Akateeminen Kirjakauppa bookshop, is a curiosity in Aalto’s production, a reminder of his larger, unrealized plans for Helsinki’s city centre.
Erottaja Pavilion is one of Helsinki’s earliest Aalto-designed buildings. Photo: Maija Holma, Alvar Aalto Foundation
Erottaja Pavilion is a curiosity in Aalto’s production, a reminder of his larger, unrealized plans for Helsinki’s city centre. Photo: Maija Holma, Alvar Aalto Foundation
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Erottaja Pavilion
Erottaja Pavilion is located in the city centre of Helsinki on Erottaja street. The Pavilion is nowadays used as a entrance to a parking hall below ground level. Erottaja Pavilion is viewable from the outside.