Many of you will remember this picture of grandson Samuel in the cement igloo at the beautiful new park near the Oulu beach which I covered in an earlier blog entry.
While, on the one hand, the City Authorities are bringing new and wonderful creative designs to Oulu, with the other hand, they are intending to tear down some of the great history of this city.
Right in the centre of Oulu, just next to the Railway Station, there is a real granite igloo. Here are some photographs that I took last summer.
The design of the Granite Igloo, the air raid shelter belonging to Finnish Railways, can be seen in this old design document which I unearthed from the internet.
There are so many interesting things that can be done with this air raid shelter to make it a tourist's paradise and a children's dream come true.
However, the intention of the Oulu City Authorities is to knock down this beautiful landmark in the centre of Oulu, along with the characteristic railway station made of wood, and to erect a cement conrete glass structure which, to them, symbolises "International Oulu".
I am grateful that the tireless and ageless artist HILKKA INKALA, is campaigning against the destruction of this monument. I only have a Finnish version of her fascinating biodata.
I will be commenting in detail about this stupid idea of what THEY think to be the "International Oulu" concept in a separate blog entry (so stay tuned to this blog).
My blood just boils, just now, to think of the indiscriminate destruction they are planning for the memories of many Finns who went through much hardship during the war and after, and for whom these memories, as this air raid shelter, mean so much.
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