A professor of economics, Sixten Korkman has chosen Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects' Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw as the winner of the inaugural Finlandia Prize for Architecture. Sibelius Hall is located by the beautiful Lake Vesijärvi. Even the earliest plans show the main characteristics of the final solution. Alvar Aalto’s Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, seen from the side facing Töölönlahti Bay. Sibelius Hall is a congress- and concert center that offers diverse services for both consumers and companies.
The building is composed of cubic forms with a tower that the architect hoped would improve the building's acoustics.

Designed by Alvar Aalto, Finlandia Hall was completed in 1971. The Finlandia building comprises a main concert hall with 1,700 seats. The Finlandia Hall was completed nine years later. The modernist building in the center of Helsinki is both functional and decorative. Its spirelike center mass encloses a 1,700-seat concert hall. Sibelius Hall was built in 2000 adjacent to an old factory building.
The old hall will be continue to be used for conferences and exhibitions. In 1962 the Helsinki city authorities commissioned Aalto to design a concert and congress building as the first part of his great centre plan. An implicit cultural line curves to link the building to Finlandia Hall while it also engages a "natural line" connecting to the back landscape and Töölö Bay. Expanses of white marble from Carrara in Northern Italy contrast with black granite in the elegant Finlandia Hall by Alvar Aalto. Finlandia Hall will be repaced as a concert venue by a new hall, to be constructed alongside the existing structure, beginning in August 2011. The modern wooden architecture is combined with the old industrial history in the most interesting way.