Kuressaare

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Kuressaare is small resort town (pop.14706) on the coast of Saaremaa,Estonia's largest island. Town size is 14,95km².
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Kitsas 15 apartment building design competition.

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Recently architecture competition ended in Kuressaare for designing apartment building on Kitsas 15. Out of 14 submitted works architecture bureau PIN Arhitektid OÜ won with their work 'Raam' / 'frame'
Authors from PIN are Jaan Port,Katrin Kaevats,Neeme Tiimus and Markus Nimik.
Jury considered most works as high quality projects when taken separately,but overall most projects blended weakly to surrounding area.

Source: http://www.saartehaal.ee/index.php?content=artiklid&sub=41&artid=27896&sec=1

Design competition of hotel on Pikk street 27.

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In a way,PIN Arhitektid OÜ continues their success story with previous project,as in summer (in late July,to be more precise) they won design competition of this hotel building.

Same authors - Jaan Port,Neeme Tiimus,Katrin Kaevats and Markus Nimik were behind work called 'Süvend'

Here's their design (click on it for larger view):
http://i769.photobucket.com/albums/xx332/Raudhunt/Pikk27_Svend-11.jpg (http://kodukoht.kuressaare.ee/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pikk27_Süvend-11.jpg)

http://i769.photobucket.com/albums/xx332/Raudhunt/Pikk27_Svend-21.jpg (http://kodukoht.kuressaare.ee/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pikk27_Süvend-21.jpg)

You can see other competition entries here: http://kodukoht.kuressaare.ee/?p=837#jal

Design competition of Tallinna 14A building extension.

Competition for designing Tallinna highway 14A building extension & reconstruction of existing 1960s building has ended. Competition was won by Ivar Lubjak & Maria Pukk from architecture bureau OAAS Arhitektid with work called Klots / Block.

Click on renders for closer look.
http://i54.tinypic.com/34qs30l.jpg (http://kodukoht.kuressaare.ee/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Tallinna14a_Klots_1.jpg)
http://i53.tinypic.com/k4cztg.jpg (http://kodukoht.kuressaare.ee/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Tallinna14a_Klots_2.jpg)
http://i52.tinypic.com/2ug2q6p.jpg (http://kodukoht.kuressaare.ee/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Tallinna14a_Klots_3.jpg)

Source (worth checking out,as it has other competition entries):http://kodukoht.kuressaare.ee/?p=1018

According to Kuressaare city architect accessibility became determining factor for choosing OAAS work. Their choice of black colour is bit questionable and project itself probably get some improvements in the future.

Tallinna highway 14A building extension & reconstruction of existing 1960s building called Klots / Block.

Oh, before getting home (read to: klots) should always go through shop and those stairs ... oh and they didnt build floor 6 to get more cash...:lol:

Damn. Its bad.
But there must be way to make these buildings better without dynamite or bulldozer.

This glass kiosk ( as its quite expensive sq m prize) would be "wow per buck" a lot better in some nicer place... far from commies.

Looks like Merikotka residential suburb,just off the Saare golf course in Western Kuressaare, is getting another new apartment building after long pause (last buildings were completed before Masu). Each 3-storey apartment building has 14-18 apartments. Afaik,so far 4 (...or 5...I'm not sure :D) buildings have been completed out of 8 planned. All buildings are designed by Luhse & Tuhal.

Link: http://www.aakv.ee/merikotka/EE/avaleht

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And as this hasn't been mentioned on SSC before,few photos of completed buildings (photos by Delfi.ee):
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Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid has released new renders of Kuressaare stadium's final design. As far as I can tell,slope next to seats has removed and there are structures added to both sides of stadium building.

Link to project on KTA's website: http://kta.ee/kuressaare-stadium-2

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