Pärnu Residential Building

The seaside town of Pärnu is Estonia's Riviera - dubbed the 'summer capital', it boasts a beautiful sandy beach and around-the-clock night-life in summer. Architecturally, Pärnu is associated more than any other town with a white functionalist style. Some of the finest works of 1930s architecture, inspired by technological progress and strict modernism, stand here. Supelfunktionalism -'swim-Funk', if you will- has become Pärnu's trademark, and the everyday life of these buildings is strictly monitored by the heritage conservation authorities. Kalle Vellevoog had no problem with this context as he is a staunch adherent of white Funk - meticulous, rigorous, detail-oriented. The holiday apartment building he created is fairly strict and imposes clear contours. The V-shaped building has gallery access along glassed-in corridors that overlook an interior courtyard with a solitary tree planted in the middle. This outdoor area is not for lingering, but for observing the building itself.