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The Finnish architect Viljo Revell is internationally best known for the Toronto City Hall....
Viljo Revell
Finnish architect (1910–1964)
Viljo Gabriel Revell (25 January 1910 – 8 November 1964) was a Finnisharchitect of the functionalist school.
In Finland he is best known for the design of the Lasipalatsi ("Glass Palace") and Palace Hotel, both in Helsinki.
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Internationally, Revell is best known for designing the New City Hall of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Life and career
Revell, originally spelt Rewell, was born in Vaasa in 1910, and graduated from Vaasan Lyseo in 1928.
He graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1937. He made his architectural breakthrough already the year he graduated when he, together with fellow students Heimo Riihimäki and Niilo Kokko, won the architectural competition for the design of the Lasipalatsi, which had originally been intended as a temporary building comprising shops, restaurant and cinema, but which became one of the landmarks of Finnish "white functionalist" architecture.
His next major work was