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CITY IN BRICK
CITY IN BRICK
Brick was used as a building material as early as the Middle Ages. A good example of this is the Turku Cathedral, the clock tower of which is in the picture in the bottom row. Brick was popular also a hundred years ago and there are several splendid brick buildings in Turku from that time period. In the upper left corner there is the Church of Michael, designed by Lars Sonck and built in 1899-1905. The national Romantic style church with round towers looks like a fairy tale castle. Up in the middle is the popular Turku Market Hall, designed by architect Gustaf Nyström and built in 1896. Nyström also designed the Turku Art Museum. In the upper corner on the right you can find the over 100-year-old former railway maintenance halls which were turned into a cultural performance location, Logomo, in 2011, when Turku was the main stage of the European Cultural Year.
The picture in the centre represents the old former district prison from 1890, which was functional until 2007 on the famous Kakolanmäki, one of the seven hills of central Turku. The prison church is on the right in the poster. The bottom right corner shows the Renaissance style Turku City Library from 1903. It was donated to the city by tobacco manufacturer and commercial patron, Fredric von Rettig and the shape of it resembles that of the Stockholm Knight Building. At that time, red brick walls with large windows were a common sight in industrial buildings. There are good examples of this trend in Itäinen Rantakatu: the old industrial assembly hall of the Wärtsilä Turku Dock Yard, the 2nd picture on the right at the bottom. Another example is the tower of an old factory building in the corner of Tehtaankatu and Jokikatu located by the Aurajoki River, in the bottom corner on the left. Nowadays the tower is part of the Arken block owned by Åbo Academi.
Another spectacular brick building is the Turku fire station from 1916 on the left in the middle. The youngest building in the poster is in the bottom row second on the left. This former redbrick girls’ school next to Samppalinna Hill was built in 1926, which was the same year when a new partially redbrick apartment house was built at Kauppiaskatu 20. The mother and child statue in the poster corner on the right is placed in the niche of the wall of this building. City of Turku, Finland, 800 years in 2029.
MUISTA, ETTÄ VOIT LAITTAA POSTITUSOSOITTEEKSI MYÖS LAHJAN SAAJAN.
Tuotteitamme myydään myös Kaivokatu 16 A kivijalkamyymälässä, joka on auki silloin, kun samassa tilassa sijaitseva Kampaamo Flame on auki, katso kampaamon kotisivuilta.
