Tag Archives: estonia

5 Dec 09

Nordic Voices

Nordic Voices is a weblog about literature in the Nordic countries. NV links to an article in the guardian about Estonian literature being translated into English and you could run the same argument in Finland both for and against.
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6 Dec 07

Estonian Embassy in Second Life

Estonia has just opened an embassy in second life, being the second country to do it officially behind Sweden. Interestingly Estonia’s official second life embassy is different from Swedens offering in a few subtle ways that seem to me to make it a more thoughtful offering. The Architecture is especially of interest to me, while [...]
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28 Aug 06

Estonian Architecture

ark magazine (3.2006) ran an editorial and some essays with an overview of Estonian Architecture. So I thought I would do the same, particularly as one of the most important buildings in independant Estonia,The KUMU art gallery, was designed by a Finnish Architect. Also Estonia and Finland are an interesting contrast in terms of Architecture [...]
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10 Feb 06

KUMU

Estonia’s new art center KUMU will open on 18th February 2006, The first time Estonia has had a proper home for its nations art. It was designed by the Finnish Architect Pekka Vapaavuori who won the competition in 1994 but work only started later in 2002. Although when WWII broke out they were about to [...]
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