Yo-Talo (Tampere, Finland)
Yo-Talo, also known as Ylioppilastalo, at Kauppakatu 10, Tampere. Photography by Tiia Monto / Wikimedia Commons. Ylioppilastalo (also known as Yo-Talo ), street address Kauppakatu 10, is a building located in the Tammerkoski district of Tampere, Finland. Suomen Yhdyspankki (the Union Bank of Finland) commissioned Professor Gustaf Nyström (1856-1917), one of the last representatives of the Neo-Renaissance style Finland, to design an office building for the bank. Nyström had studied in Vienna, where he adopted local nuances of the Art Nouveau style, which was called Jugendstil in Austria and Germany. The house was completed in 1901. The decorative and imaginative facade has features from both the Neo-Renaissance and early Viennese Art Nouveau. The building is now protected on architectural, cultural-historical and landscape grounds. After its original owner, the building was called Suomen Yhdyspankin talo, House of the Union Bank of Finland. There was an impressive bank hall at...