{"id":797,"date":"2019-06-17T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pre.cdev.ee\/mainor-ulemiste\/vaata-milline-esinduslik-hoone-hakkab-uhendama-ulemiste-cityt-lennujaamaga\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:54:00","slug":"check-out-the-elegant-building-to-be-built-between-ulemiste-city-and-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainorulemiste.ee\/en\/check-out-the-elegant-building-to-be-built-between-ulemiste-city-and-the-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out the Elegant Building to Be Built between \u00dclemiste City and the Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mainor \u00dclemiste, the developer of \u00dclemiste City has declared PLUSS Architects winner of the architectural design competition for a 20,000 m2 office building to go up next to the new terminal building planned by Tallinn Airport.<\/p>\n

According to Mainor \u00dclemiste Development Manager Ursel Velve three Estonian and one Danish architectural bureau were invited to participate in the competition to design an office building at Sepise 7. \u201eThis building has special significance for \u00dclemiste City, for the new terminal of Tallinn Airport will be built next to it and thus Sepise 7 will serve as the place where the airport and \u00dclemiste City meet,\u201d Velve said.<\/p>\n

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\u201eGiven the location of the building the competition terms of reference included the requirement for designing a spacious and attractive main entrance. We also asked the architects to design areas for co-working and relaxing, for these are inevitable in future office buildings,\u201d Velve noted. She explained that office buildings in the hub were named after Estonian innovators and inventors and therefore the architects had to propose a worthy name for the new building as well.<\/p>\n

The winning work, titled \u201eAlma Tomingas\u201d was deemed as the best by the \u00dclemiste City developer\u2019s team, employees of the companies operating in the hub, as well as the jury consisting of service designers and architects. They all liked the beautiful architectural solution, people-friendliness, and how the proposed name and the design came together.<\/p>\n

Indrek Allmann from PLUSS Architects explained that the Alma Tomingas Building represented a new generation of office buildings. \u201eIn addition to everything that is now part and parcel of class A office buildings, we paid special attention to spatial solutions that would enhance the creativity of people working there. Whether it be a large internal atrium with balconies that shifts the border between indoors and outdoors or a so-called interactive wood, whose tropical microclimate makes it a perfect spot to meet colleagues and fight the kaamos,\u201d Allmann said, hoping that every user of the future building would find a favourite place there.<\/p>\n

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Alma Tomingas, who is to lend her name to the building, was an Estonian pharmacist, Doctor of Pharmacy, Head of the Chair of Pharmacognosy and later Dean of the Medical Faculty at the University of Tartu, the first Estonian woman to become a professor. \u201eAlma Tomingas helped people with her knowledge of pharmaceutics and medicinal herbs, the office building inspired by her work does the same through the designed environment,\u201d Ursel Velve said, considering it a great honour that the first building in \u00dclemiste City to be named after a woman, will bear the name of the first Estonian female professor.<\/p>\n

Mainor \u00dclemiste plans to start the construction of the building at Sepise 7 at the end of 2020 and complete it in 2022. The building will have one floor below ground and 12 storeys above ground.<\/p>\n

The building was designed by Indrek Allmann and Gunnar Kurusk.<\/p>\n