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Darja Nikitina (DN): Hello, Fyodor, could you tell me where you were born? Have you always lived in Narva?
Fyodor Shantsev (FS): My mothe...
Architecture
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During September 2013, the second Tallinn Architecture Biennale took place in different venues around town, curated by Aet Ader, Kadri Kleme...
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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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EE: Minister Jaak Aaviksoo has said that the ministry has not dealt with any other university in recent years as much as with the Estonian A...
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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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Liina Siib (LS): You and I first came to Kalarand (a coastal area in Tallinn, literally ‘fishing beach’, close to the old town) in 2005, dur...
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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,...