3699) Finlandia Hall, Finland: Posti (Finland Post) has issued a set of Postage Stamps featuring the Renovated Hall: Date/Year of Stamp set issue: 15.01.2025:
The Finlandia Hall is a congress and event venue in the centre of Helsinki on the Töölönlahti Bay, owned by the City of Helsinki.
The building, which was designed by architect Alvar Aalto, was completed in 1971. Every detail in the building is designed by Aalto.
The designs were completed in 1962, with building taking place between 1967 and 1971.
The Congress Wing was designed in 1970 and built in 1973–1975.
In 2011, the building was expanded with new exhibition and meeting facilities.
Finlandia Hall is known as the venue for the OSCE Summit (Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe) held in August 1975, attended by 35 world leaders, including the leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, and the President of the United States, Gerald Ford.
The inauguration of the Finlandia Hall was celebrated on 2 December 1971.
The inauguration concert included the first performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Meren tytär ('Daughter of the Sea') and Aulis Sallinen's Symphony (opus 24), as well as Sibelius's violin concerto with Isaac Stern as the violin soloist of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
The main feature of the Finlandia Hall building is a tower-like section with a sloping roof.
Alvar Aalto's idea behind the design was that a high empty space would provide better acoustics.
A lattice ceiling hides the space to the audience but it allows the creation of the same deep post-echo as tall church towers. Aalto used Italian Carrara marble in both indoor and outdoor surfaces as a contrast to black granite. For Aalto, the marble was a tie to the Mediterranean culture, which he wanted to bring to Finland.
Finlandia Hall features an optical illusion the National Museum building on the other side of the street seems to rise from the edge of the Finlandia Hall tower.
The effect is created by a black trapezium on the white marble surface of the Finlandia Hall tower.
The
trapezium has been measured to fit the rising tower of the National Museum when
the Finlandia Hall is viewed from the eastern shore of the Töölönlahti Bay.
Aalto liked to create optical illusions. Another example of this can be found
on the pedestrian path behind the library building of the Helsinki University
of Technology (current Aalto University) in Espoo.
The interior design of the building is a tribute to the principle of the Gesamtkunstwerk, that is, the total work of art.
The design of each lamp, piece of furniture, panel, flooring material and decorative board is a reflection of Aalto's maturity resulting from his long career as an architect as well as designer of lamps, furniture and fixtures such as door handles. All the materials speak the language of nature, without technically artificial tones. This is because Aalto's basic view was that architecture should create a frame for human beings.
In the Finlandia Hall, the focus is not on extraordinary forms or ostentatious interior, but rather on the audience and on the performers.
According to Aalto, the audience at the Finlandia Hall need not dress up like people used to in the opera house foyers and gilded concert halls of the old days. What people wear should be as genuine and natural as the environment in the building.
The Postage stamp set:
- The renovation of Finlandia Hall has been completed and the doors were reopened to the public on January 4, 2025 with a celebratory Strauss concert.
- To celebrate the opening, Posti has issued stamps designed by
Ilkka Kärkkäinen that feature photographs of parts of the interior and exterior
of the Finlandia Hall which the general public will recognise.
- The stamps capture Finlandia Hall and are clear and timeless, just like the building itself.
- Following the renovation, the building has new services,
functions and spaces. The Finlandia Hall is now an experience-oriented event
center open to everyone in the heart of the city.
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