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At the confluence of art nouveau and ecclectic early modernism in Riga’s metropolitan architecture

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Tołłoczko Z.

Czasopismo Techniczne

The aim of this paper was to draw attention to the coincidence of streets intersections ending, in general, in corner buildings making up typical and picturesque parts of the townscape of the 19th c. European cities, including the central quarter of Riga. This type of town-planning establishments perfectly compose with the art and aesthetics of Art Nouveau in Riga. An additional and very important component of the townplanning- architectonic solutions is the decorative finial of the corner houses (not only in Jugendstil, but also the Latvian national romanticism) creating a harmonious composition in respect of art and town-planning, ideally completing the townscape of this Baltic metropolis.

A few reflections about monument conservation sketched with an architecture historian’s pen in other words between Bremerhaven, Paris and Glasgow

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Tołłoczko Z.

Czasopismo Techniczne

The aim of the essay is to remind people of selected realizations done during the last two decades of the 20th c. targeted at the rescue, restoration and enlivening objects of the 19th c. architecture. They were created in the period of industrial revolution, when the turn of the century became the past, remaining a valuable relic of the past and serves new aims, cultivating both old-time and restored functional, aesthetic and artistic values.

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2 Czasopismo Techniczne

2 2016

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At the confluence of art nouveau and ecclectic early modernism in Riga’s metropolitan architecture

A few reflections about monument conservation sketched with an architecture historian’s pen in other words between Bremerhaven, Paris and Glasgow