The Seaplane Harbour of Tallinn
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winning project was submitted by a Danish company, Christiani & Nielsen (project manager
Herluf Trolle Forchhammer and constructor Sven Schulz) and it comprised of three shell
concrete domes with a general plan of 50x100 meters. On June 9th the same company,
"Christiani & Nielsen" was also given the task of constructing the hangars. The company had an
advantage, because it had a representative office in St. Petersburg and was involved in the
construction of Noblessner's slipway.
The actual construction commenced on July 5th, 1916 on the site officially named as Tallinn's
Seaplane Harbour and in parallel with the hangars port piers were also constructed.
On October 13th, 1917, the construction team received an order to suspend all construction due
to the war. Fortunately the hangars were almost ready by that time (only short of large-scale
sliding doors, ramps for launching the planes and the floors had no wood cover). These seaplane
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