Uploaded on 2018-12-04 by Corlynne

This is a photograph of the outside of a market called Balti Jaama Turg In Tallinn. It's located near Telliskivi, an old industrial area that has been redeveloped as Telliskivi Creative City, a place for people to attend events, eat, drink and shop. is the creative centre of Tallinn. https://www.visitestonia.com/en/telliskivi-creative-city The market includes elements of wood (seen on the yellow tables and market "huts". Wood has been the primary building material at Estonia’s latitudes for thousands of years. Easily obtainable, quickly erectable, and more comfortable to live in than stone buildings. It was only in the 20th century that wooden architecture began to be appreciated. Until then, a few isolated stately buildings, which as a rule were built of stone, were seen as the more valuable manifestation of architectural thought. When the 20th century brought everyday architecture and the everyday environment into focus, the charms of wooden architecture were also discovered. Rapid developments and the domination a modernist view of the world had already swept a great deal of wooden architecture into nonexistence in many countries. A considerable amount of wooden architecture has been preserved in Estonia.