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Contact Stained glass hall by Dolores Hoffmann
Until the renovation, the stained glass by Dolores Hoffmann, graced the entrance of the Tallinn TV Tower, now it has been relocated to the southern side of the tower because the new architectural design required the opening of the second-floor view on the front side of the tower.
One of the main symbols of the TV tower
The stained glass has been placed on the rear wall of the stained glass hall, providing significant added value to the interior design of the room. Dolores Hoffmann’s colorful and cheerful stained-glass window has been one of the main symbols of the TV tower, in addition to the cafe, with which people associate the tower.
The entrance area of the TV Tower was a labyrinth when the tower was built: the entrance building, the covered approach to the tower without seeing it and the entrance on the second floor from around the corner. The current solution creates a clear entrance directly into the second floor foyer – visitors see the entire TV Tower in all its glory upon arrival. When reconstructing the TV Tower, KOKO architects highly valued Dolores Hoffmann’s stained glass and deemed it unreasonable to divide or piece it apart. It has been relocated intact to serve as a cinema hall, where it is displayed to all visitors as part of the exhibition.
Dolores Hoffmann’s stained glass is titled “Television is a window to the world”
It is a window and when you open it, you can learn about almost everything that surrounds us and in the middle of which we live. The reporters depicted in the central part of the stained glass window deliver important messages to the world, while the circles on the stained glass window symbolize telephoto lenses. The artwork uses the primary colors of the color television spectrum, which are red, blue and green. The red parts show the world of art, the blue the world of science and the green the world through the eyes of different generations.
