The 2025 architectural awards were presented and the best architectural objects and creators were recognized on Saturday, February 14. Sepapaja 12 temporary parking lot in Ülemiste City received the Estonian Landscape Architects Association’s Temporary Space Award 2025. 

The authors of the temporary parking lot solution are landscape architects Grete Veskiväli-Dubov and Merilin Sasilo (Punktiir). 

Ülemiste City is constantly developing and therefore urgently needed to increase the parking area, which will gradually be filled with buildings in the future. The desire to bring greenery to the parking lot led to the initiative of landscape architects to create a temporary landscaping concept that used substandard and leftover seedlings from local nurseries. The idea was to give them a new life so that in the following years, after monitoring and maintenance, stronger ones could be replanted in future developments in Ülemiste. In addition to trees, the parking lot landscaping was supplemented with tall perennials and grasses. Meadow grass seeds were also sown, with the aim of flowers that would appear over the noses of cars. The result was an unusually lush combination for the parking lot. 

The architecture endowment fund of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Association of Estonian Architects, the Association of Estonian Interior Architects, the Association of Estonian Landscape Architects and the architectural magazine MAJA awarded a total of 17 laureates this year – authors of the most outstanding achievements and works in the field of Estonian architecture. A total of 166 works were submitted for the architecture awards this year.