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ICOMOS Recommends Finland’s Aalto Works for UNESCO World Heritage

6/15/2026

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ICOMOS recommended Finland’s Aalto Works series of 13 modern-architecture sites for UNESCO World Heritage inscription, with the Committee deciding in Busan on 19–29 July 2026.
The nomination, prepared by the Finnish Heritage Agency, the Alvar Aalto Foundation and ICOMOS Finland, moved from the 2021 tentative list to the advisory stage.
CEO Tommi Lindh called the ICOMOS assessment unequivocally positive, noting the sites’ global significance for modernism and Finland’s welfare-state development.

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ICOMOS recommended Finland’s Aalto Works series of 13 modern-architecture sites for UNESCO World Heritage inscription, with the Committee deciding in Busan on 19–29 July 2026.
The nomination, prepared by the Finnish Heritage Agency, the Alvar Aalto Foundation and ICOMOS Finland, moved from the 2021 tentative list to the advisory stage.
CEO Tommi Lindh called the ICOMOS assessment unequivocally positive, noting the sites’ global significance for modernism and Finland’s welfare-state development.