Winners of Estonian Architecture Awards for 2021 announced!
The Cultural Endowment of Estonia in Architecture and the Estonian Association of Architects, the Estonian Association of Interior Architects and the Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union have handed out this year’s architecture awards recognizing the most outstanding achievements and works in Estonian architecture and their creators.
A total of 184 works were submitted. Of these, the jury picked 55 nominees and awarded 19 honours, including two student awards.
‟As expected, the standouts at the 2021 architecture award landscape were public-used buildings commissioned by the public sector – the Lodjakoda traditional barge workshop complex in Tartu, the Haapsalu Basic School, Saue Municipality Building, the Tuuletorn (Windtower Experience Centre) on Hiiumaa Island, and even a small reading pavilion in Koidula Street in Tallinn. The interior design of the nursery school set in Pärsti Manor or TalTech’s academic and research building belong in the same ranks,” said architecture scholar Triin Ojari, adding: “It was all the more gratifying to see a publicly listed company, Port of Tallinn, investing into architecture: the Old City Harbour cruise ship terminal, which won both the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Estonian Association of Architects’ annual awards is a building and landscape at the same time – strategically the right step to making the city’s shoreline more human-friendly.”
“With every passing year, landscape architecture is better represented among the nominees, and with more compelling works. It seems that creation of a pleasant and appealing green zone in the city is the new normal. Although only a few of the nominees this year involved finding new uses and renovation, a TV series called Restoran 0 that employed interior architects’ design ideas in a creative manner, filled that void in the best possible way.”
The award-winners and nominees of the annual awards handed out by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in Architecture and the Estonian Association of Architects, the Estonian Association of Interior Architects and the Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union, and the winners of award for best publication in the field of architecture given by Maja architecture magazine and the Sirp culture newspaper are all included in the annual publication, Eesti arhitektuuripreemiad. As for the Estonian Association of Interior Architects award winners and nominees, they are featured in the yearbook Ruumipilt.
Photographs of the award-winners can be found here.
2021 ANNUAL AWARDS OF THE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT OF ESTONIA IN ARCHITECTURE
The Cultural Endowment handed out awards in the categories “New from Old”, “Just Look at That”, “Thought and Action” and “New Space”. A special prize and main prize were handed out in the last of these categories.
The jury members were the architects Jaak Huimerind and Joel Kopli, interior architect Tiiu Truus, landscape architect Kristi Grišakov, product designer Merike Rehepapp, architecture scholar Epp Lankots and architecture historian Mait Väljas.
Category “New from Old”
winner: Fahle Gallery Street
landscape architecture: Mirko Traks, Juhan Teppart, Uku Mark Pärtel, Kristjan Talistu, Karin Bachmann (KINO landscape architects)
Photo: Terje Ugandi
architecture: Margit Aule, Toomas Adrikorn, Katri Mets, Laura Ojala (Lumia) and Margit Argus & Katariina Teigar (studioARGUS)
completed: 2020
Category “Just Look at That!”
winner: The “Houses We Need” exhibition
curator: Jarmo Kauge
design: Eva Kedelauk, Kristel Niisuke (NIKITA ATIKIN)
Photo: Evert Palmets
graphic design: Margus Tamm
at the Estonian Museum of Architecture 11 June to 21 November 2021
Category “Thought and Action”
winner: the book Tallinna pargid ja haljasalad (Tallinn’s Parks and Greenspaces)
contributors: Tiina Tallinn, Elle Pent, Olev Abner, Tiina Tuulik
editors: Tiina Tammet, Kristiina Kupper
copy editor: Sirje Ootsing
Photo: Marje Eelma
graphic design: Marje Eelma
published: 2021
Category “New Space” – SPECIAL PRIZE
winner: Barge Chamber
architects: Maarja Kask, Ralf Lõoke, Ragnar Põllukivi, Marja Viltrop (Salto)
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
completed: 2020
Category “New Space” – Cultural Endowment of Estonia MAIN PRIZE
winner: Port of Tallinn Old City Harbour cruise ship terminal
architecture, interior architecture, landscape: Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Ragnar Põllukivi, Marja Viltrop, Margus Tamm (Salto), Villem Tomiste (Stuudio Tallinn), Maarja Gustavson (Polka)
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
completed: 2021
ESTONIAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS ANNUAL AWARDS 2021
The Estonian Association of Architects selected the winners of the ERAMU (detached home) prize and the recipient of the architect’s annual award, and also handed out one student award.
The jury for the ERAMU prize: architects Dagnija Smilga (Latvia), Peeter Pere, Andres Ojari and Johan Tali, interior architect Hanna Karits
Jury for the architect’s annual award: architect Robert Konieczny (KWK Promes, Poland)
The jury for the student prize: architects Andro Mänd, Peeter Pere, Marika Lõoke, Kristian Taaksalu, Liisbeth Põldre
ERAMU prize
winner: Kuku-Ranna summer house
architecture: Madis Eek (Arhitektuuribüroo Eek & Mutso)
Photos: Toomas Tuul
completed: 2020
ERAMU prize
winner: Laaneotsa House
architecture: Joel Kopli (KUU)
interior architecture: Kärt Tähema
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
completed: 2020
Architect’s annual award:
winner: Port of Tallinn Old City Harbour cruise ship terminal
architecture, interior architecture, landscape: Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Ragnar Põllukivi, Marja Viltrop, Margus Tamm (Salto), Villem Tomiste (Stuudio Tallinn), Maarja Gustavson (Polka)
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
completed: 2021
Student Prize
supervisors: prof Andres Alver, prof Toomas Tammis, architect Tarmo Teedumäe
completed: 2021
ESTONIAN ASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTS ANNUAL AWARDS 2021
The Estonian Association of Interior Architects handed out three annual awards and one student prize, named after Vello Asi.
The jury included interior architects Ville Lausmäe and Maarja Valk-Falk, architect Koit Ojaliiv, curator Karen Jagodin and heritage conservation official Siim Raie
winner: Renovation of the interior of Päikesekiir Nursery School in Pärsti Manor
interior architect: Kaari Metslang (Ruumimeister)
patterns: Kristiina Ribelus (Tartu Restauraator)
structural engineer: Eva Tammpere
Photo: Märt Lillesiim
completed: 2021
winner: Restoran 0
creators: Henri Papson, Andrea Tamm, Maria Helena Luiga, Hannes Praks (Stuudio Kuidas)
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
completed: 2021 (temporary)
winner: Interior architecture design of the TalTech research and academic building
interior architect: Tarmo Piirmets
structural engineer: QP Arhitektid
Photo: Reio Avaste
completed: 2021
Vello Asi student prize
winner: Ann-Katriin Kelder (Estonian Academy of Arts)
ESTONIAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS’ UNION ANNUAL AWARDS 2021
The Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union handed out awards in three categories: “Landscape and Building”, “Motion and Play”, and “Park and Urban Space”.
The jury included architect and urbanist Elo Kiivet, landscape architects Pia Kuusiniemi and Eleriin Tekko and the environmental psychologist Silver Sternfeldt
“Landscape and Building”
winner: Fahle Gallery Street
landscape architecture: Mirko Traks, Juhan Teppart, Uku Mark Pärtel, Kristjan Talistu, Karin Bachmann (KINO landscape architects)
architecture: Margit Aule, Toomas Adrikorn, Katri Mets, Laura Ojala (Lumia) and Margit Argus & Katariina Teigar (studioARGUS)
Photo: Terje Ugandi
completed: 2020
“Motion and Play”
winner: Kääriku sports centre landscape park
landscape architecture: Edgar Kaare and Liina Einla (TajuRuum), Kristian Nigul and Kadi Nigul (Väli)
architecture: Arhitekt11
Photo: Kääriku Spordikeskus
completed: Stage I–V 2017–2020, stage VI–VII 2021
“Park and Urban Space”
winner: Renovation of Tammsaare Park
landscape architecture: Liis Saarnak, Marleen Stokkeby, Katerina Veerde, Kadri Tamme, Maarja Tüür, Ott Kadarik and Mihkel Tüür (Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid), Kerttu Kõll (Sfäär Planeeringud), Katrin Kapanen
landscaping consultants: Pille-Riin Villem (Villem Garden Design), Maarja Gustavson (Polka)
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
completed: 2020
ANNUAL AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE PUBLICATION 2021
jury: science, technology and medicine historian Aro Velmet
Portraits of winners HERE
annual award of the MAJA architecture magazine – Ingrid Ruudi interview “Ralf Lõoke: ruumikvaliteedist, mida Excel küsida ei oska” (Spatial Quality Beyond the Ken of Excel)
annual award of the culture newspaper Sirp – Krister Kruusmaa “Arhitektuuri looduslugu” (Natural History of Architecture)
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The Estonian architecture award ceremony goes back to 2015 and was initiated to bestow recognition on outstanding achievements in the field of Estonian architecture in a gala format. The nominees can be seen on the website arhitektuuripreemiad.ee. All of the nominees and award-winners are profiled in greater detail in the publications Eesti arhitektuuripreemiad 2021 and Ruumipilt 2021, which are available in major bookstores in Estonia or ordered through the architecture awards website.
The bestowing of the awards and gala ceremony are made possible by support from the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
The event sponsors are VELUX, JUNG and Thulema.
Event partners are the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in Architecture and the Arhitektuurikirjastus publishers.
The event is organized by the Estonian Association of Architects, the Estonian Association of Interior Architects and the Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union.
