001 View to forthcoming modern highrise district in Riga - Kipsala
002 Kipsala from other side
003 Swedbank offices highrise and Vansu bridge
004 Built in 2004, this highrise for several years stand alone as a pioneer in Riga's proposed business cluster
005 Dailes Theatre - one of Soviet time modern architecture examples
006 Some office building on Valdemara street
007 Another one on Brivibas street
008 Rietumu Capital Centre - bank highrise on second upcoming business district - Skanste
009 Skanstes district has also 3 finished apartment highrises and one more bank building
010 Chocolate project on outer part of city's centre
011 Appartment highrise Astra Lux in Purvciems
012 Purvciema projekts is recognized as one of the nicest boomtime appartment developments
013 Closer look
014 Imanta district has got most of the new highrises in Riga - these ones called Solaris
015 Imanta - newer Metropolia project highrises alongside older ones - designed by the same architect Zane Kalinka
016 Imanta skyline
017 Anninmuizas street in Imanta central part
018 Closer comparison
019 Reval Hotel Latvia
020 Offices alongside highway to airport - Baltais Vejs
021 Cinema Riga and Reval Hotel Latvia in centre
022 Terbatas street got some modern accents too
023 Terbatas centrs
024 Galerija Azur shopping centre has one of the best architecture in it's building type in Riga
025 On Barona street
026 Reval Hotel Elizabete - with Latvian folk song texts written on facade, selected by former Latvian president V. Freiberga
027 Galerija Centrs - 4-story shopping centre with glass covered street in Old Town
028 Central Station
029 The clock tower of Central Station
030 The main restaurant of Lido chain in Riga - Latvian national cuisine with appropriate wannabe-old architecture style
031 Swedbank highrise is probably the only one new landmark building in Riga built in 21st Century
032 Swedbank highrise in different lightings in Latvia's Celebration day
033 Another color setting...
034 And one more
035 Close up
036 These red bricked appartment buildings, built in 80ies, is definitely one of the most unique Soviet time appartment developments
037 Different angle
038 New offices in Ziepniekkalns
039 New offices in Ziepniekkalns
040 New Parex bank offices designed by M. Gerkhan in forefront and Soviet time highrise behind makes a coherent combination
041 Agriculture ministry highrise and Reval Hotel Latvia
042 Offices of construction company RBS Skals in Kipsala - one of the nicest modern architecture examples of Riga
043 The building looks really advanced and interesting
044 Window style
045 Overall view
046 One more example of Soviet contemporary architecture - furniture shop in Kengarags district
047 The same
048 Reval Hotel extension with shops, cafes
049 The most weighted highway in Latvia (more than 40 000 vehicles per day) - K. Ulmana street
050 K Ulmana street leads from Riga to resort city Jurmala
051 Walkers bridge over Ulmana street
052 Motorway from Riga airport to the city
053 Brivibas street eastern end - leading out of the city
054 New infrastructure - estacades of Southern bridge
055 Southern bridge - the largest construction project in Latvia for at least 25 years
056 On The Southern bridge
057 Southern bridge is the suspension type bridge
058 Southern bridge will be integrated in large motorway network of Riga, construction on-going
059 French project Soviet time appartment highrises on Plavnieki district
060 One of the village developments around Riga - this one differs with interesting modern architecture style