Peer to Peer / Warren Techentin Architecture (WTARCH)

Warren Techentin Architecture (WTARCH)’s entry “Peer-to-Peer” received the €3000 I prize of the Tallinn Vision competition STREET 2020, held under the auspices of TAB Tallinn Architecture Biennale.

Tallinn Vision competition STREET 2020 was addressed to young architects and architecture students who were asked to describe a fluently connected, compatible and diverse urban landscape, with a focus on one particular urban typology: the street. The organizers received 35 competition entries, 34 of which qualified. Entries were submitted from Japan, Bangladesh, New-Zealand, Turkey, Italy, Poland, USA, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries.

The architects from WTARCH describe their winning proposal after the break

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Tallinn Architecture Biennale is a new international architecture forum that brings together theory and practice as well as young and experienced architects in order to arouse rich discussion upon the issues of architecture, urban planning and landscape. The first TAB concentrates on the hybrid issue of Landscape Urbanism.

Our hope is to see landscape urbanism as a ’third way’ which can solve urban problems that have proved too difficult for conventional planning methods. Landscape urbanism could provide answers to the question of how to guide urban processes from the inside so that the system as a whole would maintain its balance and integrity. The term ’landscape’ is here used primarily as a model of consistency, responsiveness and scale, that is, a conceptual tool rather than a direct reference to nature.

For further details on this years Tallinn Architecture Biennale, please follow after the break.
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© Lukas Schaller

The original concept of the building was to combine the advantages of single residential homes with the economical aspects of `apartment living´. Over the last centuries the concept of single residential family houses changed enormously. Different approaches and reinterpretations changed not only the way that people live but also the way they use their own spaces. Atelier Thomas Pucher and Bramberger [architects]‘s proposal was to combine the advantages of privacy, outdoor gardens, and boundless views that a single residential home offers with the low economic and maintenance costs of an apartment.

Architect: Atelier Thomas Pucher and Bramberger [architects]
Location: Tartu, Estonia
Project Area: 3,500 sqm
Renderings: Martin Mathy
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Lukas Schaller, Jaan Sokk

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© Martin Siplane

Architects: Salto AB
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Martin Siplane, Karli Luik

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rendering

The key concept of this project was to create not only a building but also a new meaningful city space connecting the people, the place, its history and their music. The building delimits the boundaries of the plot, enclosing an expanse of green at its core: a garden that is urban yet isolated from the hubbub of the city.

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© Courtesy of Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid

Architects: Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Client: SA Rakvere Teatrimaja
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 400 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid

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© Martin Siplane

Architects: Salto AB
Location: Kroonuaia 7, Tartu, Estonia
Credits: Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Kristiina Arusoo
Graphics: Mammut
Project year: 2005 – 2007
Photographs: Reio Avaste, Martin Siplane, Karli Luik

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Apartment building in Tallinn. Architects Ott Kadarik, Villem Tomiste, Mihkel Tüür. Completed 2009. Photo Paco Ulman

Exhibition “BOOM/ROOM: New Estonian Architecture” opened on June 21 at MUAR – Russian State Museum of Architecture, Moscow. BOOM/ROOM, produced by the Estonian Centre of Architecture in collaboration with the Estonian Embassy in Moscow, presents a distinct selection of Estonian architecture from the last decade. The opening will be accompanied by a seminar, where Estonian architects and institutional representatives discuss the latest tendencies in Estonian architecture.

The program of the opening seminar includes presentations by Ülar Mark, Chairman of the Estonian Centre of Architecture, Peeter Pere, Chairman of the Union of Estonian Architects, Martin Aunin, laureate of the Young Architect’s Award 2009, Karli Luik, partner architect of the award-winning Salto AB, and architecture historian Carl-Dag Lige.

BOOM/ROOM: New Estonian Architecture has recently been exhibited at DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin), London Architecture Festival, Sofia Architecture Week and architecture events in Glasgow as well as Helsinki. BOOM/ROOM at MUAR will be open from 21 June until 21 August 2011.

Courtesy Peter Sand

Architect Peter Sand has placed first in an open competition to design a residential area in Rakvere, Estonia. The only notable restriction in the competition guidelines was that all entrants must be under the age of thirty. Please follow after the break to see additional images of Peter Sand‘s award winning proposal and a narrative from the architect himself.
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Tallinn Architecture Biennale is a new architecture forum that brings together theory and practice, young and experienced architects in order to arouse rich discussion over architecture, urban planning and landscape issues. First TAB concentrates on the hybrid issue of Landscape Urbanism. TAB Vision Competition is addressed to students and young architects, landscape architects and planners who are welcome to shape future cities and make room for fresh ideas.

Our hope is to see landscape urbanism as so-called ‘third way’, which can possibly solve urban problems that have proved too difficult for traditional planning because of rapid processes, constant change and instability. Landscape urbanism could also provide answers how to guide urban processes from inside, so that the system as a whole still maintains a balance. The term ’landscape’ is used primarily as the model for consistency, responsiveness and scale.

For more information go to the competition’s official website.

© Kaido Haagen

Architects: Salto AB
Location: Kreutzwaldi 3, Tartu, Estonia
Credits: Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke
Interior designer: Katrin Kaevats, Jaan Port
Structural design: OÜ Pikoprojekt
Project area: 4,600 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Kaido Haagen, Reio Avaste & Karli Luik

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© Andrés Tarto

Architects: Salto AB
Location: Varbuse, Estonia
Client: Estonian Road Museum
Project team: Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Pelle-Sten Viiburg
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Andrés Tarto. Karli Luik

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© Courtesy of Salto AB

Architects: Salto AB
Location: Sõmeru, Estonia
Project Team: Maarja Kask, Ralf Lõoke, Karli Luik, Kristiina Arusoo, Margit Argus
Project Size: 1,500 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Salto AB

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© Courtesy of Asum Arhitektid

Architects: Hannes Koppel / Asum Arhitektid
Location: Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia
Client: Kuressaare Town Government
Contractor: AS Kuressaare Ehitus
Structural Engineering: Tõnu Peipman / IB Printsiip
Constructed Area: 150 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Asum Arhitektid, Silver Saluri

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In 2010, Estonia is participating at the Venice Biennale of Architecture – La Biennale di Venezia, with an exposition entitled 100 HOUSES, and has thereby set a clear goal for itself – to present local architectural practices to a wider audience and introduce Estonian architectural life through the narrow sphere of private residential architecture. Kazuyo Sejima, the general curator of the exhibition, has named the 2010 exhibition “People meet in architecture”.

n order to demonstrate the historical continuity and unique position of private residential architecture in the local architectural scene, the exhibition includes private residences with special iconic meaning from the period of the first Estonian Republic and the Soviet era. However, the main emphasis is placed on the 21st century, thereby creating such a voluminous overview of the best of Estonian residential architecture for the first time.

The Exhibition is accompanied by a 250-page catalogue, with rich illustrative material and articles, to expand the topic. For more information, click here. You can see six Estonian houses after the break. read more »

© Courtesy of Arhitektid Muru & Pere

Architects: Arhitektid Muru & Pere
Location: Viimsi Peninsula, Estonia
Project Team: Urmas Muru, Peeter Pere, Janek Maat, Doris Orasi
Site Area: 1,694 sqm
Project Area: 300 sqm
Images: Courtesy of Arhitektid Muru & Pere

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Tomorrow, Estonia will celebrate its independence day. So to start their celebrations, we’d like to show you some great projects from Estonia. Enjoy all of them after the break.

Guesthouse at Seedri street / JVR Arhitektuuribüroo
The resort town Pärnu is also known as the capital of Estonian functionalism. It is home to the pearls of Estonian functionalism of the 1930s – the Rannahotell (waterfront hotel), Rannahoone (beach building) and numerous functionalist villas from the same period. Since the 1970s, Pärnu has been enriched with an abundance of new neofunctionalist resort architecture, which gives the town its characteristic appearance (read more…) read more »

© Tarvo Varres

Architects: Arhitektid Muru&Pere
Location: Suurupi village, Estonia
Project Team: Urmas Muru, Peeter Pere, Anna -Maria Erik
Interior Design: Kaido Kivi
Site Area: 1,264 sqm
Project Area: 320 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2009
Photographs: Tarvo Varres

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Ginseng Chicken Architecture P.C. has proposed a renewed identity for the St. Paul Church and Vadabus Square in Rakvere, Estonia by attempting to integrate three disparate elements of the site into a cohesive design strategy for a main concert hall.   With Arvo Pärt’s musical legacy and contribution to the genre of minimal music in mind, non-organization and non-sequentiality became the main driving force behind the design of the annex and were then translated into an architectural language.

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Architects: Arhitektid Muru & Pere
Location: Rannamõisa near Tallinn,Estonia
Project team: Urmas Muru, Peeter Pere, Janek Maat ,Katrin Kaevats
Structure designer: Ago Kuddu
Design year: 2005-2007
Construction year: 2007-2008
Project area: 266 sqm
Photographs: Tarvo Varres

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