Kaarli Apartment Building
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Architects
Jüri Okas
Marika Lõoke
Architectural Design Office OKAS & LÕOKE
Location
Kaarli Blvd 8, Tallinn, Estonia
Size
10 255m2
Status
Completed 2004
Client
Private
Photos
Kaido Haagen, Martin Siplane
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This elegant yet modest apartment building opposite to St. Charles’ Church is by Jüri Okas and Marika Lõoke – architects with a heroic background as some of the leading artists-architects of 1970’s resistance culture. In the last decades, they have earned a reputation for their minimalist buildings executed with an attitude of perfectionism. In a similar vein, this building does not cry out for special attention; but rather defines itself as an equal, neutral player within the urban whole. The eight-storeyed building houses 92 apartments, and those facing the street have balconies with sliding glass shutters – carefully isolating street noise.
