Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

December 1, 2010

presentation of Analyses Slow Urbanism Riga

Recently I finished my analyses period by presenting my findings about Riga, Slow
Urbanism and the design area Andrejsala, Petersala and Skanstes. It's mostly about how Riga is and to tell her story here in Holland as the city is not yet very known in general public. At the end I come to some strategies on the scale of the city. These strategies follow the Slow Urbanism principles which I want to apply also on the design area in a more detailed form.

Here below  are the posters, I would like to get some reactions on it, feel free.

November 12, 2010

Contemporary architecture in Riga and the Skanstes, Petersala and Andrejsala area

Contemporary architecture in Riga and Jurmala in hundred pictures. I especcially also show the many small projects, mainly infill in the existing city. All together they form more built mass then the icon projects like the one I start with. This is called Citadel and is located in the north of the old city, Vecriga. The area used to be a citadel and afterwards became a place to put big office blocks in the modernist  way. Nowadays it's mediaviel atmosphere is mainly destroyed, it's cut of to the medieval center by a big citystreet, Valdemara. It seems the best solution for this piece of the center is to build many qualitative contemporary architectural projects here and try to bring a new structure into the area uniting the loose projects.