(URBAN)LANDSCAPE
Architect Toms Kokins investigates the impacts of transnational forestry industry on the Baltic cultural landscapes.
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).
Balti riikide ja Venemaa (nagu ka selle lahutamatu liitlase Valgevene) vahelise piiri kindlustamisel on piirialade maastikule suur mõju.
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.
Me oleme loonud tohutud süsteemid ja võrgustikud – globaalne majandus, õigus, transport, energeetika, toit –, mida tehnosfääri masinavärk töös hoiab. Taristus on ilmselged struktuursed vead, mis koormavad meie planeeti ning mida üritatakse nn rohepoliitikaga lappida.
All new hard infrastructure should be engineered to double as social infrastructure, writes Mattias Malk.
One of the ways to alleviate environmental problems might lie in architecture that brings people closer to their environment again. Estonia as a maritime nation has plenty of opportunities for this.
I believe that many a reader will imagine islands in the form of a curled-up coastline—after all, often there is little else there besides sea foam and bird screeching. Although Estonian islands are slowly growing in size, we still have a very large number of small islands—reefs, rocks, islets—whereas not so many islands where people would live all year round.
