Regardless of its overpowering sense of genuine radicality, invention, and novelty, the Paimio Sanatorium addresses us through all of our senses, including the muscular sense of movement and sense of ...

Aalto absorbed the international language of modernism without simply copying it. Concrete, glass and straight lines remained, but wood, brick, stone, and curves allowed his buildings to respond to ...

Aino and Alvar Aalto’s “cathedral to health”, completed in 1933, was designed to provide the breathing space, support, and holistic care required to rehabilitate tuberculosis patients before the ...

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When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined building must have looked like an emissary from the future, set down in a forest of fragrant ...

The building is known as one of Finland’s architectural icon: Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, one of the most celebrated works of architects Aino and Alvar Aalto, is set for a new chapter as an ...

The Finnish architectural masterpiece, which was once a treatment centre for tuberculosis and later a hospital, has undergone a grand transformation into a multi-purpose resort – yet many of its ...

The Paimio Sanatorium has been saved by devoted fans of Alvar and Aino Aalto’s celebrated building. And now they hope to revive it as a place for health, healing and introspection. Enclosed by a vast ...

To design the Paimio Sanatorium, Alvar and Aino Aalto leveraged the best science available at the time, which called for cross-ventilation and heliotherapy (exposure to sunshine) to treat and prevent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interior view of Paimio Sanatorium, designed by Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto in 1929 and completed in 1933 as a ...

Paimio Sanatorium is a 1930s modernist icon rising out of the pine forests, but what was it like to be a patient there? Should hospitals today consider the patient experience more? Show more Opened in ...