Hanzas Perons Cultural Center / Reinis Liepins + Sudraba Arhitektūra

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Text by Artis Zvirgzdins. Riga — the capital city of Latvia was one of the biggest and advanced industrial and port cities in the period before World War I. In this 19th-century capitalist city, not only brick buildings of numerous factories and workers’ wooden tenement houses but in fact, the whole core of the contemporary city with its public buildings and multi-storey apartment houses, could be considered as the most significant part of Riga’s identity. The extensive heritage of the industrial age has played significant role in the fact that the architects of Riga are involved so much in those fields of architecture which are related to the architectural heritage — different restoration, renovation, refurbishment, and adaptive reuse projects and have been able to gain experience, skills, and mastery during the last couples of decades.