City hall
The Parliament House
Mannerheimintie 30, 00100 Helsinki
Nordic Classicist landmark of red granite columns, built by strike-tangled crews chasing an architect's exacting standards.
This guide to the Parliament House in Helsinki follows foreman Karl Angervuori, hired by architect Johan Sigfrid Siren, to turn a granite hillside into a parliament between 1926 and 1931. It traces the strikes, lockouts and bankruptcies that split the building trades and pushed the job a year behind schedule, the men who crossed picket lines, and the ones who never spoke to them again. Listen for what Siren demanded of the crews working above the debate chamber.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.