The Arvo Pärt Centre, which is dedicated to the Estonian composer, is deep in an pine forest and has no main entrance or exit.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos designed the multipurpose cultural centre using curving walls and circular columns to invoke musical compositions.

A single zinc roof covers the building, with polygonal cut outs positioned to open courtyard spaces to the sky. Curving glass exterior walls look out into the dense pine trees near the village of Laulasmaa, near the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Thin circular columns are arranged around the exterior, echoing the trunks of the pines and arranged in a pattern that represents the rhythm of Estonian composer Pärt's compositions.
The columns are spaced closer together or further apart to alternate the levels of light reaching the interior spaces.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos looked to Pärt's music for inspiration for the design of the cultural centre, which is dedicated to promoting Estonia's musical heritage.
In particular, they looked at the connections between music, which is structured by time, and space, which is created by architecture.

"This dichotomy that links music and architecture ? time and place ? is at the origin of our project for the Arvo Pärt Centre searching a balance between the intimacy of the Estonian artist's compositions and the serene beauty of the landscape," said Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos co-founders Enrique Sobejano and Fuensanta Nieto.

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