Njengencwadi ekudala ilindelwe ethi yafunyanwa ngesiquphe ngasemva kwidrowa, iThala leencwadi laseViipuri eRashiya, umsebenzi wobugcisa wokuqala wase-Finnish Modernist wezakhiwo u-Alvar Aalto owayekhe wacinga ukuba utshatyalalisiwe kwiMfazwe yesibini (II) yeHlabathi. Ngoku iyalungiswa ngokubanzi.

Eli thala lagqitywa ngo-1935 kwidolophu yaseViipuri — eyabizwa ngokuba yiVyborg emva kwemfazwe, xa iFinland yanikezela ngayo kwiSoviet Union — malunga neekhilomitha ezingama-75 kumntla-ntshona weSt. Abaphambukeli & apos; Ukufikelela kule ndawo bekuthintelwe ngexesha leMfazwe ebandayo, ekhokelela kwimbali-mlando yaseNtshona ukuba bakholelwe ukuba ithala leencwadi belichithwe kwaphela. Ngapha koko, yayiphila ngaphandle komonakalo omkhulu, kodwa yafumana ubunzima kwiminyaka eyalandelayo kukungakhathalelwa kweSoviet kunye nokulungiswa okungalunganga.

Esi sakhiwo saphinda sabuya emva kokuncitshiswa kwempixano yaseMpuma-Ntshona, kwaye iphulo lamazwe onke lokusihlaziya saqala ngonyaka we-1992. I. M. Pei, uFrank Gehry, noRichard Meier baphakathi kwabazobi abaziwayo baseMelika abaxhasa le projekthi, kuqikelelwa ukuba yaxabisa ukuya kuthi ga kwi-8 yezigidi zeedola. INgxowa-mali yeZikhumbuzo zeHlabathi ibeke ithala leencwadi kuluhlu lwazo lweendawo ezili-100 ezisengozini.

Isakhiwo kunye ne-apos; ingaphakathi licwangciswe kumanqanaba amaninzi, ngesilingi engaxineniswanga ngokuvakalayo ngaphezulu kweholo yesifundo. U-Aalto ukwenze nezinto zefenitshala ecocekile, kubandakanya nezitulo zakhe ezenziwe ngamaplanga ezenziwe ngomthi kunye nezihlalo ezibambekayo. Kwaye igumbi lokufundela eliphakathi likhanyiswe zizibhakabhaka ezinkulu ezijikelezayo, eziyilwe nguAalto ukushiya abafundi bengaphazanyiswa zizithunzi okanye ukukhanya ngokuthe ngqo.