An old house in a bit of an awkward place as the new bypass road is being built some tens of meters from it.
Accidentally picked the wrong lane and had to turn this way. But whatever.
Autumn equinox was over a month ago. It isn't November, yet. But it is getting gloomy. It's remarkably dim inside the house without the lights on. I couldn't make out any details of the cat's face when I found her sleeping on the sofa in the livingroom.
Approaching the harbour
Sibelius Hall, the concert hall, a big wooden box in an even bigger glass box
Is that made out of old railway sleepers?
The city is theater in the distance
Eastbound and up the Mustakallionmäki tunnel. At the other end of it, there is the district of Kiveriö built mostly in the 1950's.
Every Finnish city or town has a belt made out of districts like this built from the late 1940's to the late 1950's. What's notable is the relatively large property lots. Newer districts, particularly this close to a city center, are usually smaller. Only in the outer suburbs are new property lots this size. The very newest areas even in the outer suburbs tend to be built on smaller lots. Lahti is not particularly bad in this respect as the cost of housing is quite reasonable here. In Tampere (the 2nd largest urban area in Finland), a 400-500 sq.m. lot leased from the city could cost to the tune of €4,000 per year. Add property taxes on top of that. Property taxes are quite reasonable in Finland as opposed to some countries, the US in particular, though. My understanding is that property taxes are roughly 5-10 times lower in Finland than in the US.
The above two houses are of a type of Swedish prefab house popular in the mid-20th century, a lot of which were donated by Sweden after WW II. I have no idea whether these two are among the donated ones.
This may be of that type, too.