Museum of Estonian Architecture
Vaulted limestone salt warehouse converted into galleries of twentieth-century architecture.
This guide to the Museum of Estonian Architecture in Tallinn starts with the limestone walls around you, built in nineteen oh eight for the Rotermann trading company to defeat something ordinary materials couldn't survive: imported salt. It follows engineer Ernst Boustedt's design, one vast vaulted room with no wooden floor and no metal fittings, and the deep cellar that once kept cargo dry and cool through every season. You'll hear how the warehouse sat empty after Estonia's Soviet decades, too solid to tear down, before architects Ulo Peil and Taso Mahar reopened it in nineteen ninety five. Listen for the mezzanine they threaded through the original room without touching Boustedt's load-bearing walls.
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