TALLIN Projects 8 Created 11-Jun-16 By E G, madrid, Spain 4 Rävala Ave Tallinn, Alver s commercial space, restaurant, shopping centre Fahle House Koidula Street Apartment Building 3 KUMU Foorum 6 Gallery Draakon 7 Tallinn, Jacques Rosenbaum gallery, housing 4 Tallinn, 3+1 s apartment Tallinn, Hayashi - Grossschmidt Arhitektuur commercial space, housing, mixed-use development, office Tallinn, KOKO s apartment 2 Apartment building Korterelamu 8 Tallinn, Eek & Mutso s housing 5 Tallinn, Pekka Vapaavuori museum http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ Pärnu Residential Building 9 Pärnu, Kalle Vellevoog apartment 1
photo: Tiit Veermäe photo: Tiit Veermäe 4 Rävala Ave Rävala Puiestee 4 10143 Tallinn At the beginning of Ravala Avenue, in the heart of Tallinn's new city centre, stands a mixed-use commercial building with an eye-catching cantilever Together with the adjacent 23-storey City Plaza office building it forms a pleasant ensemble complete with shops, a car park, restaurant and many other elements of contemporary inner-city development They symbolize the freedom to celebrate the triumph of private capital and the freedom to transform the Soviet-style communal city into its diametric opposite, a completely privatized city City Plaza and the new commercial complex fill an entire block and are Alver Trummal's largest urban projects to date The two meticulously designed buildings form a classic composition of a high-rise building with a lower horizontal block ure is sometimes described in terms of the strong physical reactions it evokes, and indeed, walking onto the forecourt, one feels the weight of the cantilever above with one's entire body photo: Tiit Veermäe 2006 Alver s Norber Group http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 2
Fahle House Tartu maantee 84A 10112 Tallinn http://wwwfahleee In the United States, the phenomenon of revamped industrial buildings began some decades ago, when the new middle-class became tired of suburban life and started to move back to the city centres 'Loft living' became the new lifestyle and a successful real-estate product Today, this is happening in The Fahle Building, a former paper factory perched on one of the highest points in Tallinn, has become the city's first large-scale example of industrial rebirth It has restaurants, office spaces and now, towering over all this, a new glass box with apartments The objective is clear: to emphasize the imposing factory building by adding a new layer to this landmark, a fashion statement in the form of a sexy glass building overlooking the city The 14-storey structure does not try to blend in or to hide its modern appearance It is a fitting apotheosis for what was, until recently, a heap of crumbling limestone walls 2007 KOKO s Koger & Partners The Fahle Building is public, the newly added apartments are not http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 3
Koidula Street Apartment Building L Koidula 24 10129 Tallinn 3+1 s prove that the suburban dream can be realized down town, too Their apartment building is located in an old neighbourhood, right next to the city centre of Tallinn The complex consists of two parts: a building with six apartments dating from the late 19th-century historicist period, joined to a new three-storey building, which projects into the yard - one of the complex's most valuable assets The building is innovative for its typological variety Each of the ten apartments has a different floor plan and there are several duplexes The façades display a similar differentiation The glazed stairwells visible behind the façade on the garden side, boldly cut through the private sphere and convey a sense of openness, while the street façade, clad with Aluzinc, creates a more closed impression and echoes the folds of the roof forms The project offers the qualities of a detached house, such as privacy and spatial variety, just a 5 minute tram ride from the city centre Project is not public! 2005 Landscape designer 3+1 s Atelier le Balto Private http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 4
photo: Kaido Haagen photo: Kaido Haagen KUMU A Weizenbergi 34 10127 Tallinn http://wwwekmee The competition for the new Art Museum of (KUnstiMUseum, or KUMU for short) began in 1994, in the golden age of West European museum construction In a Europe where national borders had become blurred, cities competed with one another for mediagenic public works projects Compared with this superstar architecture, KUMU is definitely in a different class Pekka Vapaavuori's architecture represents a kind of modernism founded on tradition, not sensation Rammed right into a limestone bank, the complex appears to be circular, with the building itself forming only a small section Most of the building is of n limestone, the other two dominant façade materials being patinated copper and milky glass Via the gigantic forecourt of zigzagging ramps, KUMU is reached only after a long and gradual descent This unhurried atmosphere continues inside the building, where the metaphor of a circle turned in on itself is perfect and cloistered isolation from the world is realized photo: Kaido Haagen 2005 Pekka Vapaavuori Kunstimuuseumi Ehituse Sihtasutus May - Sept Tue-Sun 1100-1800 Oct - April Wed-Sun 1100-1800 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 5
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Foorum Narva maantee 5 10117 Tallinn This mixed-use development is located right at the heart of the city center of Tallinn The large scale urban infill project is envisioned to become a gateway to the port area from the city center as well as a key connection point to on-going development in the Rotermann Quarter next door photo: Nazar Leskiw 2007 Hayashi - Grossschmidt Arhitektuur Nazar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 6
Gallery Draakon Pikk 18 10123 Tallinn Gallery Draakon (Dragon) was founded in 1983, initially focusing on introducing the work by members of the n Printmakers Association After ending the exhibition practice a few years ago, Draakon continued as a gallery selling paintings, graphic art and applied art 1910 Jacques Rosenbaum Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 7
photo: Eek & Mutso s photo: Eek & Mutso s Apartment building Korterelamu Liivalaia 21 10116 Tallinn Apartment building Korterelamu In addition to numerous public buildings Madis Eek has designed many apartment buildings and single-family homes 2006 Eek & Mutso s Nazar photo: Eek & Mutso s http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 8
Pärnu Residential Building Seedri Tänav 4 80014 Pärnu The seaside town of Pärnu is 's Riviera - dubbed the 'summer capital', it boasts a beautiful sandy beach and around-the-clock night-life in summer urally, Pärnu is associated more than any other town with a white functionalist style Some of the finest works of 1930s architecture, inspired by technological progress and strict modernism, stand here Supelfunktionalism -'swim-funk', if you will- has become Pärnu's trademark, and the everyday life of these buildings is strictly monitored by the heritage conservation authorities Kalle Vellevoog had no problem with this context as he is a staunch adherent of white Funk - meticulous, rigorous, detail-oriented The holiday apartment building he created is fairly strict and imposes clear contours The V-shaped building has gallery access along glassed-in corridors that overlook an interior courtyard with a solitary tree planted in the middle This outdoor area is not for lingering, but for observing the building itself Project is not public! Floor area/size 2007 4565 m² Main designer, Interior architect Associate architect Landscape designer Kalle Vellevoog Tiiu Truus Margus Tamm Vaike Parker Hotell Pärnu OÜ http://wwwmimoaeu/users/egb/guides/tallin/ 9