Lars Sonck
Finnish architect (1870–1956) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lars Eliel Sonck (10 August 1870 – 14 March 1956) was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many established architects. The church was designed in the prevailing neo-Gothic style. However, Sonck's style would soon go through a dramatic change, in the direction of Art Nouveau and National Romanticism that was moving through Europe at the end of the 19th century. During the 1920s, Sonck would also design a number of buildings in the emerging Nordic Classicism style.
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Born | Lars Eliel Sonck (1870-08-10)10 August 1870 Kälviä, Finland |
Died | 14 March 1956(1956-03-14) (aged 85) Helsinki, Finland |
Nationality | Finnish |
Occupation | Architect |
Buildings | Tampere Cathedral, Tampere Eira Hospital, Helsinki Kallio Church, Helsinki Stock Exchange, Helsinki |
Projects | "Sonck quartier", Töölö, Helsinki |
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