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Detail of functionalism-style office building in central Riga, Latvia. March 15, 2015

Office building (1931) designed by architect Aleksandrs Klinklavs.

The former representation office and engineering building of the Basel-based pharmaceutical company "Hoffmann & Co". The two-story building is located in the corner of a densely built-up block, in the periphery of the city center. The ribbon row windows are hold in emphatically horizontal composition of the facade. Outer walls are covered with artificial stone plates, the intermediate floors by concrete plates. The geometrically modest scale office building is one of the earliest Modern movement buildings in Riga, Latvia.

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Uploaded on March 15, 2015