Tampere Central Fire Station

Wivi Lönn, one of the first women to practise architecture professionally in Finland, designed Tampere's central fire station in 1908, giving the building an Art Nouveau facade with a lookout tower originally used to spot smoke across the growing industrial city. Lönn built a substantial career in Tampere and Helsinki at a time when few women were admitted to architectural practice, and the fire station remains one of her best-preserved public commissions.