Sketch drawing of the northwestern side of the Kalevala House by Eliel Saarinen from 1921.
The Kalevala House (Finnish: Kalevalatalo) was a planned huge building designed by Eliel Saarinen for the Kalevala Society [fi] in Helsinki, Finland in 1921, which was never built.[1] It was to be built at the top of Munkkiniemi,[2] close to the current Hotel Kalastajatorppa.[1] The Kalevala House was to become not only the premises of the Kalevala Society, but also a center of Finnish culture: it would have included a Finnish cultural research institute, exhibition spaces, artists' workspaces and "research chambers".[1][3][4] In addition, Finnish great men and Fennomen would have been buried in the crypt at the foot of the 80-meter-high main tower.[1][5][6][2]
Kalevalapiha,[7] a planned courtyard of the Kalevala House
The construction of his own house had been part of the Kalevala Society's plans since its establishment in 1911. The project was driven especially by the sculptor Alpo Sailo [fi], one of the founding members.[1] The painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela, one of the club's influencers, instead became an opponent of the house project soon after Saarinen's drawings were completed, possibly because he feared it would compete for funding with his own major project, the Greater Kalevala (Suur-Kalevala). Soon, the majority of the club's board also turned against an expensive project. The requirement to build one's own house was not removed from the rules of the Kalevala Society until the early 2000s.
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^KALEVALA - Karelianism and National Romanticism - Finnish Literature Society
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^Risto Korhonen: Kalevalatalo oli aikansa Guggenheim - Kansan Uutiset (in Finnish)
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