Eliel Saarinen
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Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating in 1923, the United
Saarinen in early 1900s
Armas Lindgren, Eliel Saarinen, Albertina Östman, and Herman Gesellius in the late 1890s
Saarinen designed entire city districts of Helsinki, but they were never built due to cost. This picture shows his plan for the Haaga district.
Photograph of the Finnish pavilion at Exposition Universelle
Helsinki Central Station
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Helsinki Central Station is the main station for commuter rail and long-distance trains departing from Helsinki, Finland. About 200,000 people "pass through the station" every day, half of whom are tr
Eliel Saarinen
…the British Gothic Revival, and the Jugendstil. Saarinen's early manner was later christened the Finnish National Romanticism and culminated in the Helsinki Central railway station (designed 1904, constructed 1910–14). From 1910 to 1915 he worked on the extensive city-planning project of Munksnäs-Haga and later published a book…
Helsinki Station Entrance And Clock Tower
Long-distance train departures at Helsinki Central Station
Helsinki's first railway station building.
The station viewed from the tracks. The tracks were covered with a wooden shelter.