Tallinn Photo Thread By Tin_Can

[Tin_Can]

264 Back side of the building on photo no.245


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266 Another interesting sign.


267 Katariina Käik / St.Catherine's Passage. Former Dominican monastery and Katariina church remnants. Built 1246, destroyed by fire in 1531.


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269 Lots of tombstones are displayed on the passage wall.


270 One such tombstone,most of them are from 14th century.


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272 Chimney with cat's statue

[Tin_Can]

273 Müürivahe street,Behind The Monks tower.


274 Helleman tower.


275 Few remaining towers of Viru gate. Looking at Viru hotel.


276 That odd sidebuilding attached to tower is actually from 1800s.


277 Modern architecture's invasion to Old Town - De La Gardie shopping center.


278 Viru street,Town Hall's spire visible behind all those houses...


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280 Olde Hansa restaurant,bit like medieval Disneyland .


281 Interesting building near it.


282 Details...

[Rebasepoiss]

Originally Posted by Tin_Can

275 Few remaining towers of Viru gate. Looking at Viru hotel.

Viru gates actually don't exist any more. These are pre-gates(?... eesti keeles eelväravad)

Originally Posted by Tin_Can

277 Modern architecture's invasion to Old Town - De La Gardie shopping center.

And IMO, on of the finest examples of modern architecture in Tallinn.

[Tin_Can]

283 One last look towards Town Hall spire...


284 Corner of Suur-Karja and Väike-Karja streets. Building in the center was Riga-Russian Commercial Bank built in 1912,now it's a hotell. Also Karja streets area was location of another city gate - Karja /Cattle gate (there's no visible trace of it left)


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286 Sõprus cinema (built 1953 - 1955) and Assauwe tower on the left corner of the photo.


287 Karja streets area has a web of small,narrow streets running in each direction


288 Exiting Old Town.


289 Medieval architecture makes way to 1930s and modernism...


290 Urla building,more widely known as Lastemaailm / Kid's World building (department store for kid's has been there since 1945) Urla building was built in 1932 -1933.


291 Urla building has interesting inner courtyard,with basement level partially opened to sunlight.


292 And finally one last Old Town tower - Hinke tower,in quite bad condition,basically a small 2-storey building from early 1900s is built around it. The green & white Art Nouveau style building next to tower should be from 1924,if I'm correct.

[Tin_Can]

293 Drama Theatre (former German Theatre,built in 1910)


294 Another angle...


295 Right next to Drama Theatre is Tallinn's Administrative & Circuit Court building. Historical courthouse,built in 1893.


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297 Inglise Kolledž / English College. Old school building is from 1916,newer gym part is from 2007.

[YanXenus]

Thank you Tin Can for these thread!
Good work - real discovery even for estonians, (who does not leve in Tallinn, like me for expl. ) A lot of places i have never seen before.
But, why everyone is ignoring the Rocca Al Mare ofice building. No one is posting it in Tallinn dev. thread. It is quite ready, very nice looking glass beauty. I hoped to see it here, but .... it seems like banned.
May be this thread is a rite case to show it to forums public ?

[Tin_Can]

Thanks

About that Rocca Al Mare office building - it has been posted in Tallinn Development Thread,here's a link > http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...198090&page=72

And it will be posted here also,I simple haven't reached there yet (but soon...ok,maybe not that soon ,but in one day )

Originally Posted by Tin_Can

...I have ambitious plan of covering entire Tallinn and it's suburbs in this thread...

[Tin_Can]

Estonian National Opera house,the "Estonia" theatre. Architects Wivi Lönn and Armas Lindgren. Built in 1913,was heavily damaged in 1944 air raids,rebuilt in 1947.

298 It's front side (towards Estonia avenue)


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302 Northern corner.


303 Opera's back side (towards Pärnu mnt ) The statue in front of it commemorates victims of 1905 massacre,when Imperial Russian army surrounded and opened fire against protesters on New Market (area was market back then). It resulted 90 dead and 200 wounded.


304 Right opposite to Drama theatre is another jugend-style jewel - Pärnu mnt. 10 building, built in 1911-1912. Architect Eliel Saarinen


305 It's main entrance.


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[Tin_Can]

307 Bank Of Estonia building complex on Estonia avenue,corner building was historical Estonian Noblemen Credit Union building (1902-1904)


308 Damn trees...


309 Few more bank buildings..building in the center is from 1909,grey corner building is from 1935.


310 Estonia avenue 15. Residential building from 1912


311 statue near the entrance.

[Mario13th]

Isn't 304 Art-Deco?

[Tin_Can]

Few more photos from Freedom Square.

312 Jaani / St.John's church (built 1862-1867)


313 Another view of it.


314 Talinn's Art Building (1934) Architects A.Soans & E.Kuusik.


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316 Vabadussammas.


317 Entrance to square's undergound part.

[Tin_Can]

Originally Posted by Mario13th

Isn't 304 Art-Deco?

Not really. It has Art Nouveau/Jugend-style elements. Beside's, Art Deco wasn't that common in Europe during that time.

[Jarmo K]

... art déco is actually a 20's and 30's thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_deco

[Tin_Can]

Few photos from Roosikrantsi street.

318 Former Bank Of Tallinn building on the corner of Roosikrantsi street and Kaarli avenue. Building was built in 1997,but as Bank Of Tallinn itself was soon merged with Ühispank (current SEB),it shortly served as Ühispank headquarters until their new HQ was completed (shown on photos 9 to 12). Currently it's used as a office building.


319 Tallinn's mayor's office / city administration building. It can also be seen on photos 16 & 317. Built in 1930 - 1932 for insurance firm Eestimaa Kinnituse AS,as their headquarters.


320 Roosikrantsi street 2A. Former hospidal,built in 1904.


321 Another sign.


322 Roosikrantsi street 15. Residential building from 1912.

[Tin_Can]

Moving on to Pärnu highway (motorway?..hell,I don't know how to translate it properly ).

323 Corner of Pärnu highway and Roosikrantsi street.


324 Residential building from 1935.


325 Corner of Pärnu highway and Sakala street.


326 Pärnu highway 27,residential building (don't know exact building date,I guess late 1930s)


327 Apartment building (2003) on Sakala street


328 Another apartment building (2003-2005) on the corner of Sakala and Tatari streets. Arhitects K.Vellevoog and V.Kadalipp

[ABC LV]

Why does Estonians love to build dark and depressing buildings?

[jkk]

I'm sure your observation is influenced by the bad weather.

[Singidunum]

Nice The architecture of opera looks VERY Russian

[Rebasepoiss]

Originally Posted by ABC LV

Why does Estonians love to build dark and depressing buildings?

Black, dark grey and brown were considered a chick and elegant colour back in the days. The buildings have become a lot darker from that time, though .

Originally Posted by Singidunum

Nice The architecture of opera looks VERY Russian

Look at the year...it IS Russian.

[ABC LV]

Originally Posted by Rebasepoiss

Look at the year...it IS Russian.

Did it looked different before it was destroyed in air raid or soviet regime reconstructed opera in its original look?