A 350-metre-long glass block ramps up from the runway of a former soviet airfield near the city of Tartu to form the Estonian National Museum, which officially opens to the public today (+ slideshow).
Designed by Paris architecture office Dorell Ghotmeh Tane (DGT), the museum boasts a huge slanted roof that is designed as an extension of the old runway, located a few kilometres outside the city.

DGT won a competition to design the museum in 2005 and first photographs of the building first emerged earlier this summer. But it officially opens to the public on 1 October 2016, following a press preview earlier this week.
This new set of images taken DGT co-founder Takuji Shimmura show the museum and its landscaping just ahead of the opening.
The 34,000-square-metre museum is the largest in the Baltic States. Its exhibitions chart Estonia's history from the Stone Age to present day.

"Designing a national museum for Estonia was an extraordinary challenge given the country's many decades of tumultuous history, a history that is recent enough to still remain in the nation's memory," said the architects, referring to the country's not-so-distant Soviet occupation.

"The structure resembles a glass wedge inserted into the landscape that slowly reaches upward from the ground ? a built allegory for the country's emerging history," they added.

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The facade...