CREATIVE HUB
Tallinn Creative Hub is a creative centre in the heart of Tallinn. Its doors are open to visitors of all ages. It is available for hosting a variety of cultural events and activities focussing on the creative industry.
• Concerts
• Festivals
• Performances
• Exhibitions
• Creative industry workshops
• Seminars and lectures
• Conferences
• Gala events
AN INSPIRING SPACE FOR EVENT ORGANISERS
LABS FOR IMAGINATIVE IDEAS
• MakerLab / a universal workshop for creating product samples and prototypes
• Recording studio / a studio for recording and producing sound
• FoodLab / a place for creating and trying out recipes
A CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
• Creative education / a programme for developing interdisciplinary collaboration
OPEN URBAN SPACE FOR CULTURE AND MUSIC PROGRAMMES
• Tallinn Creative Hub Garden / a community garden open in summer for people to spend free time in, as well as a venue for creative young individuals and amateurs
• Kanala café / The Creative Hub Garden’s summer café
Creative Hub is a creative centre and a place for cultural events in the heart of Tallinn. Its doors are open for all visitors, and it is the venue for various workshops, seminars, conferences, festivals, exhibitions and much more.
In 1913–1979, this thoroughly renovated building was home to Tallinn City Central Power Station. With the founding of the power station at the time, the use of electric power became common in Estonia. The Creative Hub is named after the former boiler room (Kultuurikatel in Estonian). Completed in 1934, this part of the building with limestone walls is now used by art-minded, creative people. The former power station’s first serious encounter with art occurred in 1977, when Andrei Tarkovsky used the complex as a set for his cult film “Stalker”.
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@revitalization
Tallinn Creative Hub is a creative centre in the heart of Tallinn. Its doors are open to visitors of all ages. It is available for hosting a variety of cultural events and activities focussing on the creative industry.
• Concerts
• Festivals
• Performances
• Exhibitions
• Creative industry workshops
• Seminars and lectures
• Conferences
• Gala events
AN INSPIRING SPACE FOR EVENT ORGANISERS
LABS FOR IMAGINATIVE IDEAS
• MakerLab / a universal workshop for creating product samples and prototypes
• Recording studio / a studio for recording and producing sound
• FoodLab / a place for creating and trying out recipes
A CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
• Creative education / a programme for developing interdisciplinary collaboration
OPEN URBAN SPACE FOR CULTURE AND MUSIC PROGRAMMES
• Tallinn Creative Hub Garden / a community garden open in summer for people to spend free time in, as well as a venue for creative young individuals and amateurs
• Kanala café / The Creative Hub Garden’s summer café
Creative Hub is a creative centre and a place for cultural events in the heart of Tallinn. Its doors are open for all visitors, and it is the venue for various workshops, seminars, conferences, festivals, exhibitions and much more.
In 1913–1979, this thoroughly renovated building was home to Tallinn City Central Power Station. With the founding of the power station at the time, the use of electric power became common in Estonia. The Creative Hub is named after the former boiler room (Kultuurikatel in Estonian). Completed in 1934, this part of the building with limestone walls is now used by art-minded, creative people. The former power station’s first serious encounter with art occurred in 1977, when Andrei Tarkovsky used the complex as a set for his cult film “Stalker”.
#restoration , #renovation , #industrial , #interior_design , #tower , #Estonia , #landmark , #creative_center , #hub , #cultural_center , #lighting
@revitalization
The second level is a children’s Discovery Centre, a single large bright room equipped with smart tables, robot building kits, and built-in feature walls with Lego, Lite Brite and magnets. In keeping with the mixing of old and new, a floating glass boardroom/ teaching space and a large exterior rooftop terrace and green roof overlook the river, and also provide up-close views of the heritage building, including its newly restored slate roof.
One of the greatest pleasures of the building is the attic Makerspace—an all-white space that soars to a peak, and is braced by an elegant arrangement of star-shaped steel trusses, now adapted to hold strips of lighting. Between these trusses the architects have created a fully-equipped studio outfitted with a laser cutter, 3D printers, soldering stations, vinyl cutters, irons, sewing machines, and wood and metal workshop tools. Visitors can gaze up into the clock tower through a glass ceiling, and see its weights and gears in action. An extended glazed parapet condition at the roof level discreetly houses its mechanicals.
As they updated the building for the present, the architects were also thinking about the future. Anticipating that a river walk will eventually follow the water’s edge, they clad the soffit of the cantilever with aluminum panels, polished with a mirror-like finish, heightening the building’s relationship with its surroundings, and giving future walkers a reason to look up.
Cambridge is a small city, but it has a rich architectural and library heritage that provides context for this project. The Old Post Office is just one of a wealth of historic brick and limestone buildings lining Water Street, including a stately brick Carnegie library, one of three built in the area. These nineteenth-century libraries used classical architecture to show the value placed on knowledge and ideas. With their reimagining of the Idea Exchange Old Post Office, juxtaposing brick and slate with glass and metal, RDHA has made the same statement in an updated architectural language, and shown the value in merging the historical with the contemporary. And while the Idea Exchange Old Post Office is bookless, the Idea Exchange Queen’s Square branch, with an extensive book collection, is only a short walk away.
#Canada , #interior_design , #office , #public_space , #landmark , #cultural_center , #library , #hub , #extention , #glass , #skylight
@revitalization
One of the greatest pleasures of the building is the attic Makerspace—an all-white space that soars to a peak, and is braced by an elegant arrangement of star-shaped steel trusses, now adapted to hold strips of lighting. Between these trusses the architects have created a fully-equipped studio outfitted with a laser cutter, 3D printers, soldering stations, vinyl cutters, irons, sewing machines, and wood and metal workshop tools. Visitors can gaze up into the clock tower through a glass ceiling, and see its weights and gears in action. An extended glazed parapet condition at the roof level discreetly houses its mechanicals.
As they updated the building for the present, the architects were also thinking about the future. Anticipating that a river walk will eventually follow the water’s edge, they clad the soffit of the cantilever with aluminum panels, polished with a mirror-like finish, heightening the building’s relationship with its surroundings, and giving future walkers a reason to look up.
Cambridge is a small city, but it has a rich architectural and library heritage that provides context for this project. The Old Post Office is just one of a wealth of historic brick and limestone buildings lining Water Street, including a stately brick Carnegie library, one of three built in the area. These nineteenth-century libraries used classical architecture to show the value placed on knowledge and ideas. With their reimagining of the Idea Exchange Old Post Office, juxtaposing brick and slate with glass and metal, RDHA has made the same statement in an updated architectural language, and shown the value in merging the historical with the contemporary. And while the Idea Exchange Old Post Office is bookless, the Idea Exchange Queen’s Square branch, with an extensive book collection, is only a short walk away.
#Canada , #interior_design , #office , #public_space , #landmark , #cultural_center , #library , #hub , #extention , #glass , #skylight
@revitalization