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1. A very clear instance of this is Onken (Citation2007, pp. 23–46).
2. What follows in this section is a very partial, superficial account that is skewed by the aims of this essay. The interested reader who is unfamiliar with the concept of semiology/semiotics might like to consult one of the many books outlining this ‘valuable buzzword’ (Cobley & Jansz Citation2004, p. 3).
3. ‘Texture’ suggests touch – and Lefebvre was keen to promote the idea that the world should be understood by all the senses, not just sight (see Leach Citation1997, p. 164).
4. Olav Männi's statue of Lenin was originally placed on a pedestal designed by the architect Ilmar Bork. Erected in 1957, it was moved from the main square in 1993.
5. Information on the history of the Baltic Exchange is derived from: ‘History – The early years’, available at: www.balticexchange.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=388, accessed 6 February 2008; and from the ‘Baltic Glass’ exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum (available at: www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.20025, accessed 6 February 2008).
6. The people who died in the bombing of 10 April 1992 were Paul Butt, aged 29 and a securities dealer; Thomas Casey, a 49-year-old doorman at the Baltic Exchange; and Danielle Carter, a 15-year-old schoolgirl. The devastation wrought by every death is summed up by the fact that one of the ambulance workers who arrived at the scene of the Baltic Exchange bombing never recovered from his experience. He shot his girlfriend five months later and tried to commit suicide. He is now in a secure psychiatric unit (Beck Citation2000).
7. Source: ‘History – The early years’.
8. Information on this is from Powell Citation2006, pp. 50–1 and ‘Stained glass from the Baltic Exchange’, available at: www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.20025, accessed 6 February 2008.
9. This is not to overlook the fact that one of the main aims of the IRA and other terrorist organizations was to cause chaos and carnage, with little care or understanding for life or property. Those responsible for the attack of April 1992 passed on misleading information to the police, indicating that the device was outside the Bank of England. This could have been a deliberate deception, or it might have been an indication that they were so poorly informed that they could not properly identify the buildings they were seeking to destroy.
10. This deliberately skewed quotation is adapted from Barthes' brilliant article ‘The Eiffel Tower’ (Barthes Citation1964/1997).
11. Information on listing is taken from www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1374, accessed 6 February 2008.
12. The fact that two-thirds of the tower on the main west front facing Bishopsgate survived the bombing made restoration feasible. Much of the rest, however, needed to be built anew. See www.stethelburgas.org/ourhistory.htm, accessed 6 February 2008.
13. SAVE Britain's Heritage, 2000, The Baltic Exchange, available at: http://www.savebritainsheritage.org/baltic.htm, accessed 6 February 2008.
14. See www.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/sds/spg-views.jsp, accessed 6 February 2008.
15. See www.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/sds/docs/spg-views-final-all.pdf, accessed 6 February 2008.
16. ‘A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales at the New Buildings in Old Places Conference, St. James's Palace, London’, 31 January 2008, available at: www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speechesandarticles/a_speech_by_hrh_the_prince_of_wales_at_the_new_buildings_in__604060620.html, accessed 6 February 2008.
17. Pavilions of Splendour: ‘The [dismantled] Baltic Exchange’, available at: www.heritage.co.uk/apavilions/baltic.html, accessed 6 February 2008.
18. For an account of this within the wider context of Estonian ethnography, see Elle Vunder, ‘Ethnography at the University of Tartu’, available at: www.erm.ee/?node=130, accessed 29 May 2008.
19. Cited in T. K. Salvo, ‘Baltic Exchange sold to Estonia for £800,000 through an ad on SalvoWEB.com’, 23 June 2007, available at: http://salvonews.blogspot.com/2007/06/major-uk-architectural-salvage-deal.html (accessed 31 August 2007). An article in The Baltic Times dated 9 August 2001 described Kross – who represented Estonia at NATO membership negotiations – as ‘a former coordinator of the work of the national security service with the State Chancellery’. It also named him in connection with a controversial real estate deal involving the then mayor of Tallinn, Tõnis Palts. See Kurm (Citation2001).
20. ‘UNESCO decries Viru Center’, The Baltic Times, 7 December 2005, available at: www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/14172, accessed 6 February 2008.
21. ‘Tallinn officials to provide UNESCO with explanation’, The Baltic Times, 7 April 2006, available at: www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/15104, accessed 6 February 2008.
22. Source: www.merkoehitus.ee/?id=290 (accessed 6 February 2008).
23. See www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=494989 (accessed 6 February 2008). The on-line discussion was triggered by the posting of a news story about the Baltic Exchange from the BBC's website (Lane Citation2007).
24. ‘St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace’, available at: http://www.stethelburgas.org, accessed 6 February 2008.
