The former wood chip container of the Toppila pulp mill in Oulu.‹›
Toppila wood chips silo

Alvar Aalto

Exterior · Oulu, Finland · 1931

Photo: Jan-Erik Finnberg · Taken on 1 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3888×2592

The former wood chip container of the Toppila pulp mill in Oulu.

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