The seafront north of the Old Town is dominated by the sprawling grey-brown bulk of the Linnahall concert hall, a stepped, flat-roofed structure that looks like a ziggurat that has had its top sliced off.

Built in 1980 by architects Raine Karp and Riina Altmäe, it was originally named the V.I. Lenin Palace of Sports and Culture, and intended to serve as a ceremonial hall for the 1980 Moscow Olympics (when Tallinn hosted the Sailing Events). It subsequently served as one of the city’s main concert halls (and indeed was still in use when I attended an Estonian punk retrospective in 2003).

Unused since 2010 and covered in graffiti, it is attracting increasing attention as one of the Soviet period’s rare architectural masterpieces - far-reaching renovation work is currently ongoing.