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RIGA CENTRE - PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS (Rigas centrs - problemas un risinajumi)

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Lejnieks J.
Materiali Latvijas makslas vesturei
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2004
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vol. 4
163-169
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Building activity is a synonym of economical development, so the society's discontent with new edifices in Riga centre seems paradoxical because of parallel calls for rapid economic growth. Obviously building activity happens in places where it should not but avoids places where it would be necessary. The former ones are mostly public spaces like squares, the latter ones - gaps left by war damages in the building districts. The problem is a well-known contradictory situation in the interpretation of a certain process. During the last years none of the large projects in Riga centre has been realised without smaller or larger scandal. Valdemars' and Stockmann Centres, the Triangul Bastion and 'Saules akmens' skyscraper as well as construction in the Station Square, Town Hall Square and Strelnieku Square are most renowned bones of contention. It should be noted that these are municipal properties afforded for long-term lease with building license. The Valdemars' Centre was constructed in the place of a small wooden building that housed a popular restaurant before the war. Community was informed about the new building in the Station Square only after it was leased out to investors. The Stockmann Centre by the railway embankment was created as an alternative to the failed construction of a multi-level parking lot. It was started in a contestable way when the Riga City Council decided to change the status of natural foundation on both sides of the canal that was approved by the general plan of the City in 1995, permitting construction. The Triangul Bastion was also created with the pretext of building parking lots. There is a simple answer to the question about contradictory choices to be made when part of community is for the new building and part against it. These choices are created by political and economical forces, competing for influence in the City's development and subsequent financial profits. Architects become hostages in this process and they can perform their duty and become 'free' only if they had managed to achieve the impossible - to transform public space in a way acceptable for community.
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LATVIAN ARCHITECTS IN SWEDEN, 1944-1991: WORK IN EXILE (Latviesu arhitekti Zviedrija. Darbs trimda. 1944-1991)

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Lejnieks J.
Materiali Latvijas makslas vesturei
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2000
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vol. 1
155-163
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After WW II, there was some 30 architects among the 5,000 Latvian refugees who had settled up in Sweden. There was a construction boom going on, and they quickly found work, given that professional contacts with Sweden had been established even before the war. Riga's young architects in the 1930s learned much about classical styles and less about the methods of functionalism. They appeared in Sweden at a time when the two different approaches to architecture - the retrospective and the functional - were becoming synthesized into Neo Empire style. The Latvian architects brought form-type ideas and compositional techniques that had been used in Sweden previously. Among them were a trend toward romantic and monumental construction forms, such as towers on city government buildings. A project to build a new city hall for Riga, the designer for which was influenced by the early-century town hall building of Stockholm, had not been completed when war came. The most significant work toward this direction is the city hall in Vesterosa, which was designed by M. Sanrna and S. Ahlbom. Also accomplished in the profession were Voldemars Vasilis (public buildings in Goetheborg) and Andrejs Legzdins (design publications in the journal Domus), among others. Educated in the traditions of style-based architecture but well aware of the architecture of functionalism, the young Latvian architects were forced to put their ideas into practice in emigration, on the other side of the Baltic Sea. Thus they made a permanent investment in the architecture of the Swedish state.
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