Paris architecture office Dorell Ghotmeh Tane has created a new home for the Estonian National Museum ? a 350-metre-long sloping glass building that rises from the runway of a former Soviet airbase near the city of Tartu (+ slideshow).

Dorell Ghotmeh Tane (DGT) won an international competition to design the museum with its proposal for a site on the airfield, which is located four kilometres northeast of the city.

Scheduled to open in October 2016, the glass and concrete building will host exhibitions, performances and education activities. Facilities inside include gallery spaces, a conference hall, public library, auditoriums, educations rooms, offices and storage space for the museum's collections.

The glazed facades are screen printed with a random pattern of white dots designed to enhance and distort reflections of the surroundings. In the winter, the dots complement the snowy environment to lend the building an icy aesthetic.
The land the museum occupies once belonged to Raadi Manor, which was owned by a family of Baltic German aristocrats and later became home to the original Estonian National Museum.

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In 1940, 100 hectares of the manor's land were requisitioned to create an airport that was an important base for Soviet bombers for 50 years. The manor was destroyed in a bombardment during the second world war.

DGT's design seeks to reestablish the site as a place...