AEGRUUM ⟩ How a radio factory became a bank building

In 1997, a revitalization of Estonia’s electronics industry led to the Narva Maantee, Jõe, Ahtri, and Parda Street area between them receiving the Tallinn Cultural Capital Year Award for Architecture. Architect and heritage preservationist Henry Kuningas documented the area’s history, closely tied to that of RET – the Radio-Electronics Factory, one of Estonia’s leading electronics companies. The prominent, networked facade building located on the corner of Narva Maantee and Jõe Street previously served as temporary space for the National Library and had housed several banks prior to that.

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