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22 lip 2022 · The 1952 Olympics, held 70 years ago, had a significant impact on Helsinki’s cityscape. Design Stories went on a tour of the sites of the Olympic Games to see what they look like nowadays. Join us!
11 lip 2022 · Originally designed as a temporary building to serve visitors to the Olympic Games, the Lasipalatsi (“glass palace” in Finnish) once housed commercial premises, restaurants, and a cinema. 2018 saw the completion of a five-year, €50 million project by Helsinki-based architecture firm JKMM to restructure the Lasipalatsi to house the Amos ...
11 paź 2022 · The wish was fulfilled, and on the first day of January 1952, the Olympic flag was raised in Helsinki to celebrate the start of the sports year – the capital would organise the world’s biggest sports event the following summer.
The 1952 Summer Olympics (Finnish: Kesäolympialaiset 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (Finnish: XV olympiadin kisat) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
The buildings that were constructed in Helsinki for the 1952 Summer Olympics have been well preserved and are internationally renowned for their cohesive and minimalistic architecture....
1952 Winter Olympics Overview. Facts. Overview. The Olympic Winter Games were finally held in a Nordic country and Norway worked hard to make these excellent Olympics. The Norwegians renovated the famed Holmenkollen ski jump for the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Olympic Stadium. The most impressive examples of Functionalism in Helsinki are associated with the construction for the Olympic Games. Helsinki had originally been selected to host the Summer Olympics in 1940, but because of World War II, it had to wait until 1952.
