A House That We Need?
How should we define heritage in a paradoxical situation where both the building and its surroundings could be regarded as heritage objects? Our editorial board asked architects to muse on the future of the building.
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How to Discuss Built Heritage?
The field of spatial heritage comes with a kaleidoscopic array of concepts that connect the subject with issues such as the climate crisis, reuse, architecture and urbanism. The used terms need to be clarified and made more familiar.
Summer 2023 (113): Housing
OUTSETHot Bath and Cold Deal: Living space’s two facesMari Möldre ESSAYEstonian Housing Policy on the Threshold of a RelaunchVeronika Valk-Siska REVISITA Residential Quarter Like a HedgehogTulbi-Veeriku, Pluss Architects, 2007Elo Kiivet ESSAYOn Housing and the Public Sector’s Responsibility in a Society with a Free Market FetishHannes Aava RESEARCHThe Marketised Domestic Interior. A Feminist critiqueMette Johanne Hübschmann
Spring 2023 (112): moratorium
This issue of Maja takes the call for a moratorium on all new construction as its starting point.
Spatial Development Office as the Key to Good Living Environment
Why is it no longer possible for 21st-century Estonia to continue without a spatial development office, and what kinds of new values would the new office create?
What’s up, Vilnius?
In Tallinn, we have had quite a lot of good visions for the future: development plans, studies, and strategies. Yet, we have not acted according to these ideas which has resulted in a different environment than envisioned—especially if we look at our mobility and the quality of public spaces. Our colleagues in Vilnius have created a simple street manual and it seems that they are successful at implementing it. We gathered Jonas and Anton from Vilnius to find out how they have done it.
On Coming to an Agreement, or, How We Still Don’t Have a Spatial Law
How about we agree that from here on out, we will be implementing only good spatial solutions? Okay?
Tactical Urbanism—Testing Ground for Future Cities in Our Backyard
In order to compensate for the bureaucratic inflexibility and sluggishness that is burgeoning in spatial design, a new methodology has evolved that enables to operate in a more democratic, playful, experimental and cost-effective way.
Klindipark From an Animal Ecologist’s Perspective
The competition was won by Sfäär Planeeringud (Kerttu Kõll, Lauri Läänelaid, Triin Kampus and Alvin Kanarbik) with their proposal ‘Displacement’. The work caught the jury’s eye with its comprehensive solution that offered not only a design idea for the park, but also ideas on how to tie the urban space around the park with the new green movement trajectory, and how to reduce noise and air pollution in the city.
A New Circular Reality
The circular economy centre highlights the potential of waste materials as a reusable resource. It creates possibilities for repairing, reprocessing and using things again.
