Sweden and Finland - Day 7

The last day of the trip consisted of visiting the Myyrmäki Church, then the home of Eliel Saarinen (the father of Eero Saarinen), and then another cemetery. We were supposed to go to Aalto's Sanatorium that made him famous but our ferry to Stockholm was canceled because there was too much ice in the ocean. Instead we drove back to Helsinki to fly back to Copenhagen.

the Myyrmäki Church built in 1984

the inside of the church

the home of Eliel Saarinen, the complex housed two other families that were apart of his architecture firm. the house is designed during the national romanticism era.

the front door

one of the many light fixtures

Eliel was a short man so the doors were all very short, about 5' 7" tall

the draftsman's table, there was always a draftsman that lived in the house

the children's room with specialized furniture

little Eero before they moved to the United States

crazy icicles

the entrance to a cemetery

the skylights inside the crematorium

the alter in the main chapel

students sketching

the outside of the main chapel

another chapel in the same cemetery