Mustamäe is one of the 8 administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The smallest by area, it is at the same time the second largest district by population with 66,305 inhabitants . It is located 5 km from the centre of Tallinn and is bordered by districts Haabersti, Nõmme, and Kristiine. Local housing is mostly represented by 5–9 storeys high panel blocks of flats, built in the 1960–1970s.
Linnahall is a multi-purpose venue in Tallinn, Estonia. It is situated in the harbour, just beyond the walls of the Old Town, and was completed in 1980. It is not to be confused with the primary administrative building of the historical municipal government (Raad) of Tallinn, often referred to as the Town Hall. The venue also features a heliport and a small sea port.
Edgar Johan Kuusik was an Estonian architect and furniture and interior designer.
Peep Jänes is an Estonian architect.
Andres Alver is an Estonian architect.
The Estonian Academy of Arts is the only public university in Estonia providing higher education in art, design, architecture, media, art history and conservation-restoration. It is based in Tallinn.
Allan Murdmaa was an Estonian architect.
Marika Lõoke is an Estonian architect.
Margit Mutso is an Estonian architect.
Jüri Okas is a notable Estonian architect, installation artist and printmaker.
Peeter Pere is a notable Estonian architect and artist.
Mai Šein is a notable Estonian architect.
Tiit Trummal is a notable Estonian architect.
Mart Port was an Estonian architect and pedagogue. He was the head of many statutory plans during the Soviet era, including Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Viljandi and Tallinn's districts Mustamäe, Väike-Õismäe and Lasnamäe.
Kaljo Kiisk was an Estonian actor, film director and politician. He was best known for his roles as Kristjan Lible from Spring, Summer (Suvi) and Autumn (Sügis), film adaptations of Oskar Luts' novels, and as Johannes Saarepera from ETV's long-running Õnne 13. His career spanned over half a century from 1953 to 2007.
Tiit Kaljundi was an Estonian architect and a member of the Tallinn School. He became well known in the later part of the 1970s as a part of a new movement of Estonian architects that was led by Leonhard Lapin and Vilen Künnapu. The majority of the architects in this movement were graduates from the State Art Institute in the early 1970s. This group included Kaljundi, Avo-Himm Looveer, Ain Padrik, Jüri Okas, and Ignar Fjuk, as well as Veljo Kaasik and Toomas Rein from an older generation of architects. After the 1983 exhibition in the Tallinn Art Salon, they became known as the “Tallinn Ten" or the "Tallinn School," a broader term to describe the group used by the Finnish architect Markku Komonen.
Ants Mellik was an Estonian architect.
Tõnu Mellik was an award-winning Estonian architect active in the mid-twentieth century.
Ülo Nugis was an Estonian politician and economist. As Speaker of the Supreme Council of Estonia on 20 August 1991, he presided over the Supreme Council's historic session when it voted for the restoration of Estonia's national independence from the Soviet Union.
Vello (Ergav-Vello) Asi was an Estonian interior architect, graphic designer and professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Together with Väino Tamm, he has been one of the most important interior architects and representer of modernist interiors in Estonia since the late 1950s.
Residential quarter at Trummi 21, dwellings. (1970-1971)
Residential quarter at Trummi 21, row-house. (1970-1971)
Tallinn Central Post Office, co-author Mati Raigna. Project 1974, completed 1980, now renovated
Tallinn Linnahall (1980-1981, with Riina Altmäe)
Tallinn Linnahall (1980-1981, with Riina Altmäe)
Sakala center, formerly the building for Political Education. The building was almost completely demolished in 2007. Only the tower was left standing.
Sakala center from a different angle.
National Library of Estonia (1993)
