Granö Center - Villa Tammekann in Tartu

This is my favorite house in Tartu. I have never made it inside, but who knows maybe next year I will...

Situated in Tartu, the Granö Centre of the universities of Turku and Tartu was opened in April 2000. The Granö Centre is located in a house designed by Alvar Aalto in 1932 as the residence of Professor August Tammekann and his family. The Turku University Foundation purchased the building from the children of the family in 1998 and the Villa Tammekann was repaired following Alvar Aalto's original designs as closely as possible. The centre has been named after J. G. Granö, former rector of the University of Turku and professor of geography of the University of Tartu. J. G. Granö was one of six Finnish professors invited to Tartu in the early 1920's and he contributed greatly to further Finnish-Estonian university cooperation, founding, for example, the Finnish-Estonian school of geographical thought. His son, Fellow of the Academy of Finland, Olavi Granö was the initiator for establishing the cooperative centre for the universities of Turku and Tartu. (Granokeskus)
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Across the street, through the park, from wonderful Villa Tammekann, there is something else which looks wonderful to eye.