Jaak-Adam Looveer—Creating Spaces with Bureaucratic Means
All pioneering and innovative projects need support to prevent them from getting stuck in the old rut under the pressure of red tape.
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A (Sustainable, Healthy, Innovative, Creative, Diverse, and Lively) City
If there is any feeling of blandness, or risk aversion, or scant sense of place, it is not due to insufficient bike lanes or pedestrian squares, but rather because the larger questions of what is produced and who gets to have how much have already been decided.
Spatial Design at Põhja-Tallinn
The general plan for the Põhja-Tallinn city district is headed in the overall direction of diminishing the proportion of industry, increasing openness to the sea, developing the mobility environment via public transportation and bicycle traffic, and strengthening the blue-green network of the district.
From Submarines to Bicycles: The Story of Noblessner
Living close to water is good for our health: it reduces the risk of premature death, obesity, and has a generally restorative effect on people’s mental and physical health. 1 In the city, water is often so near, yet so far. Did you know there are more canals in Birmingham than there are in Venice, but people have been separated from the water by bad urban space? Tallinn has a long coastline but there are very few places in the centre where you can access the sea at all.
Rotermann Quarter 20 Years Later
Rotermann Quarter stands out for the diversity of its new-builds and reconstructed former industrial buildings. There is probably no other area in Estonia awarded with as many prizes as this one. Mathilda Viigimäe and Kristi Tšernilovksi shed light on the architectural development of Rotermann Quarter.
Why Do We Need Streets?
Thinking of design as a service means bringing into focus the user and user needs. The impact of user-specificity is steadily increasing in how the processes of spatial design are approached. Ave Habakuk from the Living Street movement writes about how to think of the street as a service.
Winter 2023 (111): Street Unrest
Spatial design of a city is not a project with a clear beginning and end, but a continuous process, and a wickedly slow one at that.
Johan Tali: Only Cities Can Save Us Now!
Johan Tali is the winner of the 2021 Young Architect Award from the Estonian Association of Architects. He earned this distinction for his wide-ranging activities as an architect, curator, lecturer and populariser of architectural topics.
Speculative Project. Digital Park
The bastion belt should be a park with its use activated by a building.
Speculative Project. The Vision of Heliorg in Harjuoru
‘Heliorg’ explores the possibilities for reviving the bastion belt surrounding Tallinn Old Town.
