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Photograph ©Ott Kadarik

OBJECT:              Apartment building
LOCATION:        Tallinn Vana-Viru 13/ Aia 4
PROJECT:           Winning entry of a closed competition
STATUS:              Project
ARCHITECT:     KOSMOS

The 5-story apartment building is situated on the edge of the medieval old town of Tallinn. It is not dominant from the street level, nor does it seem too high in the surrounding context. The dynamic mass of the building is situated in the northern and western side of the plot. In connection with some old historically valuable buildings,it creates an environment of small interconnected units, characteristic to the architectural whole of the old town. Read the rest of this entry »