When I saw a brutal skyscraper in New York with no windows, I told to myself WTF? :)
At that moment I didn't know that in Riga we have something similar. This building technically is only 2 floor high, but it could fit more than 5, and has absolutely no windows.
This building is a huge device and serve as center to control electricity supply around the city.
Transporta un sakaru institūts (Transport and Telecommunication Institute) is one of few Riga universities with the name. It is located on Lomonosova street in Maskavas Forstate. TSI was established in 1999 and it is based on the former University of Aviation (RAU)
This modern Soviet Building is the headquarter of two extremely popular Latvian media channels European Hits Radio and Latvijas Neatkarīga Televīzija (Latvian iNdependent Television) The building itself is built in 1986 on Elijas iela 17, Maskachka in Soviet Avant-garde architecture style.
Dobroe Utro Katja (Good Morning Katja) is a very old graffiti in Maskachka neighborhood. It is written in Russian using Latin letters. Such way of writing Cyrillic letters is sometimes called Crazy Russian. Interesting is that in every country Cyrillic letters are mapped to different Latin letters or numbers, for example letter Ш could be written as sch, sh, s, 6 or w
Vārpa was one of the Riga breweries located at Maskavas iela. It was operating since 1898 till 2003 when brewery went bankruptcy because of strong competition. Nowadays this building is abandoned and standing empty.
St. George's Armenian Orthodox Church (Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ եկեղեցի or Церковь Сурб Григор Лусаворич) was built in 1997. This is the third largest branch of Orthodox Christians living in Latvia, after Russian Orthodox and Old Believers. The church is located between Maskavas and Krasta streets, behind Mols Shopping center.
Lido Restaurant at Krasta is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Riga. National Latvian cuisine, local own brewing and live music can be found in Lido. It was opened in 1999 and initially was one of the cheapest food place in Riga. Indeed, you could eat as much as you can for 1-2 Lats (3-4 EUR), then times has been changed and Lido became a place with average prices. After the crisis came, Lido was one of the first companies who had reduced their prices, almost in twice.
Krasta masīvs (Krasta Area) is a district around Krasta street, in fact part of Maskavas Forstate. A lot of Soviet apartment buildings, shopping malls are located here.
Православный кафедральный собор Св. Иоанна Предтечи or Sv. Jāņa Priekšteča pareizticīgo katedrāle (St. John the Baptist Orthodox Cathedral) is located in Maskavas Forstate. Initial building was the reassembled wooden All Saints church in 1883, which got new name of St. John the Baptist. There is no clear information when the brick building with onion domes was built, but it was somewhere between 1911 and 1923.
There are a lot of old warehouses around Central Market. Some of them were rebuilt and still are being in use, some of them became night clubs or even art galleries. But some structures were never renovated and nowadays look like ruins of Ancient Rome.
Few hundreds meters from Riga Central Market, in the area of old warehouses, there is a real Latvian farmer's market. It opens at sunset, and, I guess, works all night long. Here you can buy healthy products grown in Latvia.
Jēzus Evaņģēliski luteriskā baznīca (Evangelic Lutheran Church of Jesus) is a wooden church built in 1822 on Elijas iela. The black wooden building on left has its own photo as well.
Mercedes-Benz is one of the best car brands in the world. In my humble opinion of course. The irony of it is that Riga Mercedes center is located in one of the city poorest areas - Maskachka. Some of Mercedeses, which have already appeared in this blog before:
Varšavas iela (Warsaw street or Warszawska) is a small street in Maskachka area, which delivers its name from Riga's sister city Warsaw, the capital of almost neighbor country Poland, and which is only 561 km (349 miles) away. Before 2003 the name of this street was Īsā iela (Short street), which was used in the records since 1880. I am interested, are there many regular readers from Poland? Please sign :) See also other destinations from Riga.
Every language is being developed and extended every day, especially by not native speakers. Transliteration of Russian is quite controversial point, but I guess it is unavoidable future and this writing is a good example of that. Dzērieni or Napitki (Напитки) means Drinks in Latvian and Russian respectively.
This wooden house is inhabited for many years, but still it is remarkable example of Riga architecture of 19th century. Located just some hundreds meters from Central Market.
This pink slum dwelling, located not very far from Daugavpils iela, is home for several Gypsy families or clans. There is no secret that one of the major Gypsy businesses is drug dealing. So, what do you think, what this three men street gang is waiting for?
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