Helsinki Central Station was designed by Eliel Saarinen, replacing the original 1862 station by Carl Albert Edelfelt. The client was the Finnish railway administration. The infobox gives 1909 as the rebuild year, but the text says pile-driving began in 1912 and the building opened on March 5, 1919.
The article describes an initial National Romantic design that was later reworked into a more rational one. It has a red Hanko granite facade, reinforced concrete vaults, a brick structure and copper roofing. The clock tower is 159 feet (48.5 m) tall, and the central hall covers about 780 square meters.
Bombing damaged it in 1944, and a major attic fire followed in 1950. A glass platform roof was added in 2001, and a hotel opened in the eastern wing in 2021. It remains a main commuter and long-distance rail hub linked to the Metro. The article gives no hours.
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