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Article: ART AND ARCHITECTURE REFLECT A CLASH OF CULTURES IN HELSINKI.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- February 17, 1994
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Byline: CHRISTINE TEMIN - Boston Globe
Finland's capital looks both east and west, to Russia and to Sweden, the two countries that long controlled this nation that won its independence only in 1917.
Helsinki's art and architecture, too, have been influenced by clashing cultures. Most of the architecture dating from the centuries of Swedish control is gone: Made of wood, it fell to fire.
But in the 19th century, when Finland was still ruled by Russian czars, the German-born architect Carl Ludvig Engel created a marvelous suite of neoclassical buildings around Helsinki's Senate Square. Another Engel building, this one on the waterfront, used ...