Tallinn Architecture City Guide: 13 Projects in a Capital Reclaiming its Waterfront

Seen from the water, Tallinn presents the skyline of a Hanseatic merchant town. During the Soviet period, most of the seafront was a restricted military zone, leaving the harbour as one of the few places where the city and the sea could meet. Even Linnahall , the vast concrete venue built for the sailing events of the 1980 Moscow Olympics , was positioned in part to preserve the view of the old to