Karjala Insurance Building

Vyborg, Russia

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

The Karjala Insurance Building in Vyborg, Russia, is a functionalist office structure designed by architect Olli Pöyry and completed in 1943. Now designated a regional cultural heritage site, the building exemplifies the modernist aesthetic that characterized early-to-mid twentieth-century Scandinavian architecture, with its clean lines and rational approach to form and space typical of functionalism.