"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
~ Gaston Bachelard
"The Poetics of Space"

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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
~ Gaston Bachelard
"The Poetics of Space"
This week, the great Toomas Rein (b 1940) was announced as the laureate of this year's State Culture Prize -- a worthy honour for an architect whose career spans more than half a century and whose unique buildings have helped shape the face of many cities and even more rural settlements in Estonia. Pictured here is the Rapla Kolkhoz Construction Company HQ from 1971--77, situated not far from Tallinn. In the first photo, shot by Rein himself?, you can spot his dear friend Leonhard Lapin under the basket; the second photo is by Arvi Kriis. Big congrats to Toomas Rein! #arhitektuurimuuseum #arhitektuur #architecture #toomasrein #rapla #raplakek #estonianarchitecture #architectureinestonia #archdaily #archidaily #archinews #archistory #architexture #basketballcourt #sportscenter #basketball #leonhardlapin #1970s #1970sarchitecture #architectureinestonia #archiphoto #architecturalphotography #architecturephoto #architecturephotography #archispace #greatinteriors #interiorarchitecture #skylight #concretearchitecture #concrete (at Rapla Kek) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8RHZR5p8Dv/?igshid=1th3kml4ye851
Let’s take a moment to appreciate Vääna-Jõesuu küla’s (Estonia) different landscapes and architecture. Photos by me.
Ruin is not a negative thing. First, it is obviously not a thing. One could write [. . .] a short treatise on the love of ruins. What else is there to love, anyway? One cannot love a monument, a work of architecture, an institution as such except in an experience itself precarious in its fragility: it has not always been there, it will not always be there, it is finite. And for this very reason one loves it as mortal, through its birth and its death, through one’s own birth and death, through the ghost or the silhouette of its ruin, one’s own ruin–which it already is, therefore, or already prefigures. How can one love otherwise than in this finitude?
Jacques Derrida, “Force of Law,” Acts of Religion [London: Routledge, 2002], 278
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