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BLAUMANA STREET 19






The house on Blaumaņa Street 19 has been purchased by an Italian citizen who wants to renovate a historic wooden house in the center of Riga, to create a beautiful courtyard garden with a historic Dutch linden tree in the center and a tea pavilion in the depths of the garden. The owner is represented by the company SIA EMB B19 Develop.
The house is planned as a private residence for a large Italian family with four bedrooms on the attic floor. The two main floors will be used for family living, receiving guests and small home concerts. The basement floor will be used for utility and technical rooms. Having frequently visited Latvia on business trips, the owner has fallen in love with our country and Riga, as well as being involved in many international cultural projects.
While in Riga on a business trip, the Italian lady noticed the beautiful wooden house on Blaumaņa Street with an inscription on the facade: for sale. An Italian citizen bought a house from a Kazakh investor together with a Construction Project for the reconstruction of the house, developed by the architectural firm NRJA and coordinated in 2017. The project envisages a new seven-story residential building in the depths of the courtyard near the firewalls, an underground parking lot under the entire ground area, the demolition of the wooden house and the construction of a replica in its place and, of course, the felling of the Dutch linden tree.
The house client sees the unique value of Riga's wooden architectural heritage. There is nothing like it in Italy, and therefore a common goal has been set to restore the wooden house as a model, where the best conservation and restoration practice methods and experience, high-quality traditional materials and wood products of the best craftsmen are used.
The customer sees the courtyard with the old Dutch linden tree as equally valuable as the wooden house, and the goal is to create it as a romantic garden in the city center between the high walls of the firewalls. Although the garden is located on the north side of the house, it is sufficiently sunny and the high firewalls protect it from the winds.
The biggest obstacle to the project is the construction of the city transformer substation in the yard near the firewall. The transformer substation is planned to be moved to the corner of the plot opposite the entrance. The dimensions of the building have been reduced in accordance with permissible technical requirements.
Client: SIA "EMB B19 DEVELOP"
Architects: Zaiga Gaile, Maija Putniņa - Gaile
Project implementation period: from 2021
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