gazebo kuusi
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Credits: Juhani Pallasmaa - http://www.pallasmaa.fi/
“We need an ascetic, concentrative and contemplative architecture, an architecture of silence.”
The Tea Pavillion / Gazebo Kuusi, Mäntyharju, Finland, 2002
Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect SAFA, Professor
The gazebo is located on the crest of a steep rock overlooking Lake Kallavesi, in eastern Finland. The view with its rock faces covered by lichen, immense boulders moved about by glacier, pine forests and the gleaming lake below brings to mind the landscape paintings of the Finnish masters of the period of National Romanticism in the end of the 19th century.
