Same Same, but Different
Hannes Aava shares some subjective tidbits about the last 30 years of spatial design in the Baltics.
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Narva A-Z
Francisco Martínez’s and Joosep Kivimäe’s inventory of spatial objects in Narva, a city on the Estonian border with Russia.
Estonian Statehood House. A Symbolic Building During a War of Symbols
Simply removing the ‘foreign’ symbols offers no more than an ostensible solution, for dissonant heritage—a complex and controversial past, conflicting historical interpretations, etc.—need to be dealt with in a much more in-depth manner.
Pretensions in the Basement, The least seen floor in Terra Mariana
Hans Alla writes about the interesting nuances of the interior of the Knighthood House.
Metsepole. Life Between Two Forests
Architect Toms Kokins investigates the impacts of transnational forestry industry on the Baltic cultural landscapes.
Make Forest Great Again. Latvian Song Festival Grounds
The new song festival ground in Latvia is a symbolic update—an architectural interpretation of contemporary song festival culture as well as a nation’s independence in the very centre of the Baltics.
Baltic Spaces
Balticness as a fragment of identity is a bit like a curiosity forgotten in the back pocket, only to be rediscovered from time to time. We asked a number of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian archi- tects, architectural offices, and other spatial practitioners for their favourite spaces, spatial situations, or features that appear unique to the Baltic coun- tries (or one of them).
Back to 1967. Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius
Andrius Ropolas writes about the Contemporary Art Center Vilnius.
Landscape of Defence
Balti riikide ja Venemaa (nagu ka selle lahutamatu liitlase Valgevene) vahelise piiri kindlustamisel on piirialade maastikule suur mõju.
MAJA 3/4-2025 (121-122): Work and Food
What is an architect’s work, and what is its result? Is it a finished building, street, auditorium? Or is it an abstraction of these things—a design, i.e., project documentation that will be translated into a building by someone else? We asked several architecture collectives for their opinion.