The interplay of a wood ceiling, walls constructed from boards of differing lengths, and wood floorboards laid at an angle give the design a remarkable feeling of energy and flow.

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The Viipuri Library's suspended, undulating, acoustic wood ceiling and roof landscape of skylights not only reappeared in Aalto's own work over the next 40 years, they encouraged a concern for form and light in its purest aspects.

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Boasting original Victorian features, with marble fittings, dark wood panelling and ceiling fans, it gives visitors a "feeling you're back in 1928", says Joan Hewitt.

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