Arthur Analts designs honeycomb coin in tribute to Latvia
Latvian designer Arthur Analts has created a €5 coin with a tessellating honeycomb shape, to highlight the abundant natural resources of his home country. More
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen reveals plans to revitalise former brewery in Riga
Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won a competition to repurpose a derelict brewery in the Latvian city of Riga, introducing offices, a hotel and a public plaza. More
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Earthworm-inspired pavilion stages concerts and light shows in Latvia's floodplains
Didzis Jaunzems Architecture has built a circular pavilion for open-air music and lighting performances, designed to be reminiscent of an earthworm's natural habitat. More
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Inflatable pine cones top guesthouses and spa envisioned by 3Gatti Architecture Studio
3Gatti Architecture Studio has unveiled a vision for an eco-resort in a Latvian forest, featuring pavilions topped with inflatable roofs that look like pine cones. More
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Archispektras creates holiday home with a sculptural thatched roof on the Baltic Sea
An angular thatched roof extends down over this seaside house, which references the grassy dune landscape of Latvia's Pape Nature Reserve (+ slideshow). More
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Mailītis AIIM builds scaffolding and timber pavilion at Latvian brewery
Riga studio Mailītis AIIM has used scaffolding poles, timber planks and corrugated plastic to create this events pavilion – one of three temporary structures built in the grounds of a former brewery in Latvia (+ slideshow). More
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Students build scaffold-like pavilion topped with mesh "cloud" at former Latvian brewery
Stacks of recycled materials form tables, benches and stairs in this temporary timber pavilion, designed by architecture students for the grounds of a former beer brewery in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow). More
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Students create Night Train party pavilion for former brewery in Latvia
Architecture students have built a train-inspired party pavilion in the grounds of a former factory, featuring a glowing wooden carriage that shuttles along a raised platform (+ slideshow) More
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Adjaye Associates chosen for Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art
David Adjaye's firm has been selected to design a major new art museum in Riga, Latvia (+ slideshow). More
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Designs by Adjaye and Henning Larsen revealed on Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art shortlist
Adjaye Associates, Henning Larsen Architects and Caruso St John are among the seven shortlisted teams whose designs for a major new art museum in the Latvian capital have been unveiled today (+ slideshow). More
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Venice Biennale's first Baltic States Pavilion investigates post-Soviet infrastructure
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have united for the first time at the Biennale to present the Baltic Pavilion, which explores the impact of redeveloping the region's Soviet-era infrastructure (+ slideshow). More
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The Wild Thing is a "creature-like" cabin that stands tall above a Latvian wildflower meadow
The sides of this 4.5 metre-high stilted cabin lift open to offer inhabitants an uninterrupted view of the Latvian landscape (+ slideshow). More
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Wooden viewing platform looks out over Latvia's River Daugava
This wooden observation platform and pavilion emerges from the landscape of a memorial park in Koknese, Latvia, offering views across the River Daugava (+ slideshow). More
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Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School
This timber structure clad in recycled food packaging houses a temporary library and book exchange and was designed and built by architecture students in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow). More
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Saldus Music and Art School by Made
Separate schools for art and music are contained within the glass and timber walls of this academy in Latvia by Riga architects Made (+ slideshow). More
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Annvil Office, Alberta Street, by Anna Butele
Latvian designer Anna Butele used fluorescent paint and marker pens to write inspirational messages across the walls at the new office of her interior design firm Annvil in Riga (+ slideshow). More
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House on Zaru Street by Open AD
These twin residences in Riga, Latvia, mirror one another exactly, except that one is clad in timber and the other in blackened steel. More
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House in Marupe by Open AD
A roof terrace can be glimpsed between the metallic grey timber beams that surround a two-storey house near Riga, Latvia. More
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Majori Primary School Sports Hall by Substance
Latvian architects Substance have built a sports hall in Jurmala, Latvia, inspired by chunks of amber washed up on the Baltic coast. More
