Mart Port

Mart Port (4 January 1922 – 3 February 2012) was an Estonian architect and pedagogue.

He designed the Viru Hotel (1968–1972), the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia (now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; with Raine Karp, Uno Tölpus and Olga Kontšajeva, 1966–1968), the "Planners' House" (Rävala pst 8; with Peep Jänes and Arvo Niineväli, 1965–1981) and the World War II Memorial in Maarjamäe (with Allan Murdmaa, Peep Jänes, Henno Sepmann and Rein Kersten, 1959–1960).

[1] Until 1990, Mart Port worked at the Soviet architectural bureau "Eesti Projekt", from 1961 to 1989 he served as its chief architect.

In 1972 he received the State Prize of the Estonian SSR, and in 1978 the title of People's Architect of the USSR.

Mart Port died in Tallinn at the age of 90 on 3 February 2012 after a sudden illness.