Lasipalatsi
Another of Helsinki's most iconic functionalist buildings right next to Mannerheimintie, the "glass palace" by Viljo Revell, Heimo Riihimäki and Niilo Kokko was finished in 1936 and is functionalist both on the inside and outside. It was planned as a temporary office building and shopping mall, to be replaced by a bigger one in the future but that never happened. In the 1980s and 90s the building was in a fairly sorry state but due to opposition by citizens and the Board of Antiquities it wasn't demolished but underwent a major restoration at the turn of the millennium. Today the gorgeous white building with colourful neon signs houses shops, restaurants, the movie theatre Bio Rex, and beneath it, the art museum Amos Rex.
Listing from Wikivoyage: Helsinki/Kamppi and Southwest, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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