Tennispalatsi

Helge Lundström designed the Tennis Palace as a reinforced-concrete hall on a repeating structural grid, built for the 1940 Helsinki Olympics before the Games were cancelled by the outbreak of war; the building opened in 1938 with four tennis courts and eight bowling alleys on its upper floor, alongside space for car servicing and shops below. When Helsinki finally hosted the Olympics in 1952, the hall was pressed into service for preliminary basketball matches. It now houses the Helsinki Art Museum, the Museum of Cultures, and a multiplex cinema behind its original functionalist concrete shell.