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TITLEDType: Installation art on traffic islands in TallinnLocation: Tallinn, EstoniaAuthor: Madli KaljusteYear: 2021Botanical consultant: Iti JürjendalTechnical support: Mihkel SäreEvent: International Urban Triennial CITYA in TallinnCurators: Madis Luik, Kati Ots, Liina SiibFunding: Kultuurkapital It happens to me quite often at exhibitions that before looking at the artwork, I conscientiously read the accompanying label or title. Sometimes
With its solid brick walls, Helsingin Muurarimestari, an apartment building designed by Avarrus Architects, is generous to tradition, but decidedly modern, writes Leonard Ma.
Roland Reemaa interviews Eva Gusel, one of the authors of the project +/– 1 °C: In Search of Well- Tempered Architecture, that represented Slovenia at the 18th International Architecture Exhibiton in Venice.
In a simulacrum of a Southeast Asian rainforest, technology enables precisely those animals and plants included in the exposition (!) to create their own little worlds. Neither the otter nor the binturong nor the plane tree nor silver pheasant Joosep is there merely as a consumer of its environment; their interrelationship transforms, but also recreates that very environment—a scene that I am able to pass through.
Authors ask: how to talk about a railway that currently exists only in our imagination, but is nonetheless very present in our daily lives?
Infrastructure qua base structure underlies or serves the superstructure. Superstructure must take into account the load-bearing capacity of the base and must not exceed it. The variety of connections and dependencies gives rise to sustainable and resilient bio- diversity, whereas simplifying it makes life vulnerable.
In contemporary discourse, the term ‘infrastructure’ typically conjures images of roads, bridges, and utilities—physical systems essential to the functioning of our societies. However, the concept of infrastructure can be extended beyond its tangible form to encompass networks of care, healing, and empathy. As a community initiative, an ‘infrastructure of care’ transcends mere functionality, weaving connections that nurture the human spirit and foster collective healing.
The nostalgic image of an architecture office full of drawing boards and rapidographs is alien to the generation born after the restoration of Estonian independence. We began our architecture studies by acquiring basic computer skills and then boldly plunged into the world of 2D and 3D, visualisation and BIM design.
‘Crystal Computing (Google Inc., St. Ghislain)’ is a video-based investigation of Google’s data centre in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium.
Infrastructure—but is it only that? The current transportation land in Estonian cities needs to be reimagined. Mobility is gradually being diversified with new roads for public transport, bicycles, and pedestrians, but our approach to transportation land should not be limited to that. Many roads in Estonian cities are too wide, which is a remnant of