Seinäjoki City Hall

Seinäjoki City Hall
Seinäjoen kaupungintalo
Seinäjoki City Hall, with the belfry of the Lakeuden Risti Church in the background
General information
Architectural style	Modernism
Town or city	Seinäjoki
Country	Finland
Coordinates	62.786564°N 22.841781°E / 62.786564; 22.841781
Completed	1962
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Alvar Aalto
Website
www.seinajoki.fi/en/

The Seinäjoki City Hall is the main municipal administrative building in the city of Seinäjoki, Finland. It is notable for having been designed by the renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.[1][2][3]

Architecture

The building is based on Aalto's 1959 winning entry into a design contest for the new Seinäjoki urban plan, and was completed three years later in 1962.[1] It was comprehensively renovated in the 2010s, with the work finished in 2018.[4]

The exterior cladding of the main facade features dark blue ceramic tiles which appear to change colour under different lighting conditions.[5]

The city council assembly hall was designed to serve a dual purpose as a concert venue.[1]

The City Hall forms part of the city's so-called Aalto Centre (Finnish: Aalto-keskus), a cluster of Aalto-designed public buildings and an integral central square,[2] which has been recognised by the Finnish Heritage Agency as a nationally important built cultural environment (Valtakunnallisesti merkittävä rakennettu kulttuuriympäristö).[1]

See also

• Aalto Centre, Seinäjoki
• Rovaniemi city hall

References

1. "Seinäjoen Aalto-keskus". RKY.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Heritage Agency. Archived from the original on 6 November 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
2. "The Administrative and Cultural Centre in Seinäjoki". AlvarAalto.fi. Alvar Aalto Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
3. "History of town and city halls". Museum of Finnish Architecture (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
4. "Alvar Aallon suunnittelema, suojeltu kaupungintalo peruskorjattiin vihdoin Seinäjoella" [Aalto-designed, protected city hall was finally renovated in Seinäjoki] (in Finnish). Yle. 1 August 2018. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
5. "City Hall". VisitSeinajoki.fi. City of Seinäjoki. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

External links

• The Administrative and Cultural Centre in Seinäjoki on Alvar Aalto Foundation website
• City Hall on City of Seinäjoki website