Public: Tallinn Old Town Square
Pop-up Park (built)
Public: Liivalaia Cable Park (built)
Competition:
Estonian National Library’s Public Artwork
Private:
Garden in North Tallinn (work in progress)
Competition:
Ukraine Garden in Tallinn
Studio project:
Mud | Guard: Negotiated Sediment
Studio project:
Shinglecrete Pier
Competition:
Maarjavälja green space
Urban experiments: Project Green Tracks
RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES
2025 | Sirp, Merle Karro-Kalberg: “Pealelend: maastikuarhitekt Hannes Aava”
2025 | Sirp: “Märg ja kaitstud”
2025 | Sirp: “Eesti ruumiloomesse on vaja uut tasakaalu”
2025 | Maja, Estonian Architectural Review: Same-same, But Different
2024 | Maja, Estonian Architectural Review: Infrastructure—the Circulatory System of the Superorganism - Nominated for the Best Article award of the Estonian Architecture Awards 2024
2024 | Eesti Ekspress: “Aasta täis rohepesu või samm parema linnaruumi poole?”
2023 | Maja, Estonian Architectural Review: On Affordable Housing in a Society with a Free Market Fetish
2023 | Maja, Estonian Architectural Review : Tactical Urbanism – the Laboratory of Future Cities in our Backyard
2022 | Sirp, ERR: „Autokasutus kui õpitud (ha)abitus“
2022 | Müürileht: “Pühad mootorid: kuidas loodusrahvast sai rallirahvas"
2022 | Sirp: “Positiivsele tulevikule keskenduv arhitektuuriajaloolane” (interview with Beatriz Colomina)
2022 | Eesti Ekspress: „Puine lugu ehk millal hakkavad Eesti omavalitsused linnahaljastuse teemat tõsiselt võtma?“
2022 | Müürileht: „Kodanikuaktivismi seemned betoondžunglis“
2022 | Müürileht: „Niit või niiduk ehk mõistlikuma haljastuspoliitika ootuses“
2022 | Maja, Estonian Architectural Review: „In the Winds of Gentrification - Noblessener Quarter“
2022 | Sirp: „Mitte ainult inimestele ehitatud linnad“
2022 | Sirp: “Arhiteraapia: ruumiloome kui ravi” (interview with Erika Hanssen)
2022 | Müürileht: „Looduse kroon end kliimamuutuse eest ei kaitse“
2022 | Müürileht: “Kui alandaks linnade testosteroonitaset?”
2021 | Maja, Estonian Architectural Review: New Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism. The Ideological Battlegrounds of a More Sustainable Urban Space - Nominated for the Best Article award of the Estonian Architecture Awards 2021
ABOUT
Studio Mida Hekki is the creative studio of Hannes Aava, a landscape architect, curator, academic tutor and columnist on urbanism, landscape architecture and culture. Having studied landscape architecture, environmental planning, landscape gardening and art history in various universities in the UK, the Netherlands and Estonia, he launched this practice to design spaces thriving with life and pursue projects at the intersections of landscapes, urbanism and arts.
EXPERIENCE
2024-…| Running the Tallinn-based Landscape Architecture and reserach Studio Mida Hekki
2025 | Moderating Estonian Museum of Architecture’s panel (H)arutus on the culture of architecture competitions in Estonia
2025 | Participating in the visionary workshop for Pirita TOP
2025-… | Estonian Academy of Arts, teaching the landscape architecture module for 3rd year architecture students (Slender Super Studio)
2025 | Jõhvi central square and public space competition entry ‘Molecule‘ with TajuRuum Landscape Architects and Anne Vingisar
2024 | Architecture Competition Entry 'Layering’ for the Paldiski High School architecture and landscape competition with Kino Landscape Architects, Studio Argus, S.E.A. Architecture
2024 | Venice Architecture Biennale Estonian Pavilion curatorial project proposal ‘Aggregate Earth’ with Johan Tali - final shortlist nominee
2022–2023 | Tallinn Strategic Management Office, project manager of „Green Tracks“, landscape designer
2024 | Built project: Liivalaia Cable Park - Nominated for the Estonian Architecture Awards 2025 in the Landscape Architecture category
2023 | Built project: Tallinn Old Town Square Pop-up Park - Nominated for the Estonian Architecture Awards 2023 in the Landscape Architecture category
2022 | Internship, TajuRuum Landscape Architecture
Participation in the Maarjavälja green area design competition with TajuRuum ja 3+1 Architects with entry „Archipelago“ - II place
2022 August | Urbanism festival „The Street is the Future“, curator of the exhibition “From Car-Nation to Street-Nation aka Why We Need Safe and Stress-free Streets”
2021–2022 | Müürileht, urbanism columnist
2021 | Curated Biodiversity (NGO, urban greening), head of communication
2019 | Internship, Groendoeners landscaping (Zeeland, Netherlands)
2013–... | Sirp, Eesti Ekspress, Eesti Päevaleht, Müürileht, Maja, Postimees, Slacker Magazine, Kunst.ee, columnist, critic, journalist
2020 – 2021 | North Star Film Alliance, head of communication
2015-2020 | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, head of press and communication / film programme curator
2010-2014 | Youth and children’s film festival Just Film, programme curator
2013 | Tallinn Light Biennale, curator, editor
SOCIAL:
AWARDS
2025 | 3rd prize at the National Library’s artwork competition
2025 | Best Landscape Architecture project nominee at the Estonian Architecture Awards - Liivalaia Cable Park
2025 | Manuel Ribas International School Prize nominee at the 13th Barcelona Landscape Architecture Biennial with University of Greenwich
2024 | Best Article award nominee at the Estonian Architecture Awards
2023 | Best Landscape Architecture project nominee at the Estonian Architecture Awards - Old Town Square Pop-up Park
2022 | 2nd prize at the Landscape architecture competition for Maarjavälja green area with Tajuruum and 3+1 Architects
2021 | Best Article award nominee at the Estonian Architecture Award