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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Paimio Sanatorium
is a former tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio, Finland Proper, designed
by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Aalto received the commission to
design the building after winning an architectural competition for the
project held in 1929. The building was completed in 1932, and soon after
received much critical acclaim both in Finland and abroad. The building
is widely regarded as one of his most important early designs, and was
designed at the same time as the Vyborg Library. Though the building
represents the 'modernist' period of Aalto's career, and followed many
of the tenets of Le Corbusier's pioneering ideas for modernist
architecture (e.g. ribbon windows, roof terraces, machine aesthetic), it
also carried the seeds of Aalto's later move towards a more synthetic
approach. For instance, the main entrance is marked by a nebulous-shaped
canopy unlike anything being designed at that time by the older
generation of modernist architects.
