Letter from Tallinn. From: The Architectural Review | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: Lapin, Leonhard | COPYRIGHT 2001 EMAP Architecture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Tallinn, capital of Estonia, miraculously preserved its medieval heart through all the Baltic political changes of the twentieth century. Now, as Leonhard Lapin writes, things are changing.

The life and culture of the small Republic of Estonia, a country sandwiched between Russia and western Europe, has always been influenced by currents flowing east-west. The Baltic, which separates Estonia from the west, works as a kind of northern reflection of the Mediterranean, usin...