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Werk Architekten - Generational housing, Langnau 2022. Photos (C) Michele Limina.

Color for Healing

This sanitorium (tuberculosis hospital) in Paimio, Finland, was designed by architect Alvar Aalto in the 1920s. Unlike many hospitals, it was full of bright colors—including welcoming yellow on the main stairs and calming green for ceilings above bedridden patients. Aalto even created special chairs to open the chest and speed healing.

The building’s colors were mostly whitewashed later in the 20th century, but now—due to a grant from the Getty Foundation as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative—its colors are being reconstructed and the building preserved for the future.

More of the story: Saving Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanitorium

Hugh Strange - House for a photographer, London 2018. Photos © David Grandorge.

A-frame in West Marin, California

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