阿尔瓦·阿尔托博物馆扩建项目丨Architensions

For Alvar Aalto's 118th b-day, a museum extension + a few enduring favorites

Evening view of Architensions' proposed extension for the Alvar Aalto museum. Image courtesy Architensions.

Fittingly for

Furniture February

,

Alvar Aalto

would have turned 118 this month, which has prompted Archinect to celebrate his paradigm-defining designs. We're not the only ones: the existing Alvar Aalto Museum and the Museum of Central Finland will be getting an extension (the winners of the competition can be viewed here:

). One of the proposals that didn't win features Aalto-specific materiality ("light color clay bricks in grid pattern for the floors and the circulation elements to the original masonry bricks walls in a way to match the colors but announce the new building with a different texture" according to a press release by the design firm

Architensions

). Here are renderings of Architensions' proposed museum extension:

And, just because we can, a quick tour through some of Aalto's masterful furniture work: