新爱沙尼亚艺术学院丨LETH & GORI + EFFEKT

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The project Art Plaza was awarded 1st place in the international competition for a new Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. The competition had 91 participants from 26 countries. The building contains institutions for art, architecture, design, and art history, with workshops, labs, classrooms, cafe, gallery, library, and auditoriums – a total of 25.000 square meters.

The starting point of the project is an urban strategy that joins the many complex programs in one simple concept: A compact box with a spiraling public atrium. This concept liberates space and makes it possible to give half of the site back to the city as a new urban plaza. The project is a collaboration with EFFEKT.

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Tallinn

Site plan

Model

Model

‘More than a building’

‘More than a building II’

Project:

New Estonian Academy of Arts

Year:

2008

Client:

EKA

Type:

1st prize in open international competition

Programme:

Studios, workshops, auditoriums, black box, galleries, library, café, offices + plaza

Area

: App. 25.000m2

Architects:

LETH & GORI + EFFEKT

Consultants:

ARUP, AET Arhitektid

Status:

Paused