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Erottaja Pavilion Emergency Shelter Entrance

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

Erottaja Pavilion entrance 1950-1951
The entrance to the Erottaja Pavilion originally had a glass air distribution system and a skylight with flower nets. Photo: Alvar Aalto Foundation
Erottaja Pavilion
Nowadays Erottaja Pavilion serves as an entrance way to a parking hall below ground level. 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.

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