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New roads produce anonymity and deprive landscape of its character. The roads are cut straight through forests and marshlands, without any s...
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I don’t think anyone has an inkling of what architecture really entails before studying it, practising for real and starting architectural w...
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Supported by EU grants, the Estonian state has kept building, feverishly and with pleasure. It has built so much that suspicions occasionall...
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Lately, I have often felt that, as an architect I would perhaps be better off living in a country not quite as liberal as Estonia. More auth...
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According to Oskar Loorits (1900–1961), the classic of research into folk belief, Estonians have always considered roads to be dangerous. Wh...
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Tallinn is a town like any other: a diverse social and spatial association which allows material and space for different cultural practices,...
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The competition for the memorial to the victims of communism is yet another stage in the post-communist rehabilitation pro- cess. Estonian s...
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If someone named a young Estonian architectural office who represented all the dash and verve, abundant forms and carefree spatial games usu...
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I live in Nõmme, a district in Tallinn full of small private houses and plots of land that generally emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, a distr...
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The publication in 1998 of Professor Leo Gens‰s monograph, Architect Karl Burman (1882-1965), can easily be considered a remarkable event in...