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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 in 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...

The corner of Hämeenkatu and Kauppakatu, 1912. From the left: the House of Kansallispankki (built 1904-16) and the House of Blom (built 1907, demolished 1955), both by architect Birger Federley (1874-1935). Photographer unknown, the image in public domain (as far as I know). Some years ago I was planning as student work a documentary of Tampere's old Jugendstil (related to Art Nouveau/Secessionism) buildings of the late 19th and early 20th century, many of them sadly demolished now. As there was too much else to do those days, I had to put the planned documentary project on the back burner, hopefully to be retrieved in some form one day... About Birger Federley: Carl Birger Federley (17 February 1874 – 29 March 1935) studied architecture in Helsinki with fellow students such as Lars Sonck and Wivi Lönn, as well as the later world-famous trio Gesellius-Lindgren-Saarinen. In 1892 Birger Federley graduated from Nya svenska läroverket i Helsingfors, Helsinki's ...