Similar fate was with the Lembitu house of fashion architecture competition in Tallinn, 1979 that was also unbuilt.
[4] The first international recognition came to Padrik and Künnapu in collaboration with Lennart Meri with the Architectural Competition of the Arctic Center in 1984 in Finland, winning them the special prize.
[5] The main volume of the building was penetrated by the slanting glass tower directed towards the Stella Polaris.
[4] Künnapu and Padrik together with Andres Siim took part of the second international competition in 1988 at the West Coast Gateway in Los Angeles and won second place.
[6] The original task was to create a large cultural centre above an 8-lane freeway in Los Angeles.
[4] After establishing the company Künnapu & Padrik in 1994, the Methodist Church in Tallinn was designed (built in 2000).
Among their work stand out the Hotel Radisson SAS (1999) and Viru Centre (2004) in Tallinn, Tigutorn (2008) and AHHAA Science Center (2012)in Tartu.