Finland Parliament House

The Finland Parliament House, the Eduskuntatalo, stands in Helsinki, designed by the architect J. S. Siren following a competition and completed in 1931 as the seat of Finland's unicameral parliament, the Eduskunta. Its long facade of Kalvola red granite is fronted by a row of fourteen tall columns in a stripped, monumental classicism characteristic of the Nordic Classicism style of the interwar period, a deliberate move away from both older historicist styles and the emerging modern movement. The building's plenary hall and public spaces carry extensive decorative work by Finnish artists of the period, and the building remains in active use as the country's working legislature.