Fahle Gallery Street / LUMIA + studio ARGUS
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Textual content description offered by the architects. The rebirth of the historic cellulose and paper manufacturing unit space as Fahle enterprise property within the middle of Tallinn is marked by dialogue between the huge limestone partitions of century-old industrial buildings, trendy glass volumes, and verdant vegetation.

Constructed largely between 1908 and 1922, the block of buildings accommodated a paper manufacturing unit with its numerous departments till the Nineteen Nineties. Within the twenty first century, it’s present process conversion from an industrial to a post-industrial house.


Fahle Gallery Street is a coated passage born out of this conversion. Previously a slim road between manufacturing unit buildings, then walled up and closed altogether, it was reopened in 2021 as a glass-roofed, tropically vegetated oasis that is aware of no winter, even when it’s all ice and snow exterior.

The robustness of previous limestone partitions is now seconded by slender additions of metal. The greenish-toned photo voltaic management glass up above rests on the Artwork-Nouveau-inspired roof constructions of the historic manufacturing unit advanced. The beams of the glass roof are supported instantly, with none columns, by new concrete girders constructed into the cornices of the prevailing buildings. The slope and peak of the roof differ to be able to embody all of the Artwork Nouveau frontispieces on the partitions within the inside house. The buildings on either side of the passage are interconnected into a complete by a bridge crossing the airspace of the lofty gallery, and truly by all the indoor road.

The passage is lined with places of work, retailers, eating places, and terraces extending into the oasis. The sunshine and ethereal terrace furnishings in variations of inexperienced create street-like vibes whereas parts attribute of a park and the hardly perceivable borders between the indoor and outside areas evoke a shift within the state of mind, giving the gallery a particular dreamy environment, which has grow to be a favourite for particular occasions or simply meetups.



The panorama structure of Fahle property has been conceptually impressed by the concept of nature taking on the town house. Luxuriant greenery has discovered a spot to determine itself in most cracks. There may be grass rising below the timber and bushes and within the joints of the white granite slab pavement. The idea of nature coming again recurs all through the event of Fahle property as a complete, the place the dense limestone atmosphere is animated by the seemingly wild vegetation.
