How Tartu’s €100 million culture project lost the plot

How Tartu’s €100 million culture project lost the plot

The idea of building a €100 million Siuru Centre in the heart of Tartu might be sold as a beacon of culture and progress; in truth, it is a mirage – a monument to ego and excess at a time when Estonia needs neither. Tartu already hosts the monumental Estonian National Museum – an €80 million complex of striking design and cavernous emptiness. To add another giant structure in the town’s central park, only costlier, feels less like cultural visio…