Old warehouse quarter in city core of Riga, Latvia. May 28, 2023
The warehouse quarters in what is now the Riga Central Market district date mainly from the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s after the liquidation of the Riga Fortress. The warehouse quarters in what is now the Riga Central Market district date mainly from the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s after the liquidation of the Riga Fortress. The red brick warehouse buildings are more than 150 years old and were designed by the best Baltic architects of the late 19th century. The design of the quarter was revised under the direction of the architect Julius August von Hagen (1829-1909) and was approved in St.Petersburg in 1858. It describes the quarter as a 'place for commercial buildings'. The first warehouse was built in 1864 and the newest in 1886, gradually replacing the previous wooden warehouses or ambars that had been there since 1812. A total of 58 stone warehouses were built. In accordance with the special regulations for the development of spire blocks, all spires shall have facades that correspond to each other, i.e. are modelled in a similar manner and harmoniously coherent. They are in the so-called 'brick style', one of the formal variants of the 19th-century eclectic style, which is particularly common in the architecture of industrial buildings, warehouses and other buildings of an economic nature.
The artistic character of the buildings is determined by the rhythmic division of the facades with pilasters and strong, figurative brickwork cornices. The bricks used are of two tonalities: yellow sand and red clay. The red bricks are used for pilasters, cornices and other structural details, as well as horizontal bands in the planes of the yellow brick walls. Bricks of both tonalities are also layered in alternating courses in the ahivolts of the lintels of the columns.
The artistic image of the brickwork reflects the different artistic handwriting of each individual architect - the architect R.
Pflug in a more general monumental expression, the eclectic buildings of K. Felsko are distinguished by their accentuated relief construction, the two built to designs by J. F. Baumanis are in applied restrained forms, the three built to designs by R. Schmaeling.
Old warehouse quarter in city core of Riga, Latvia. May 28, 2023
The warehouse quarters in what is now the Riga Central Market district date mainly from the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s after the liquidation of the Riga Fortress. The warehouse quarters in what is now the Riga Central Market district date mainly from the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s after the liquidation of the Riga Fortress. The red brick warehouse buildings are more than 150 years old and were designed by the best Baltic architects of the late 19th century. The design of the quarter was revised under the direction of the architect Julius August von Hagen (1829-1909) and was approved in St.Petersburg in 1858. It describes the quarter as a 'place for commercial buildings'. The first warehouse was built in 1864 and the newest in 1886, gradually replacing the previous wooden warehouses or ambars that had been there since 1812. A total of 58 stone warehouses were built. In accordance with the special regulations for the development of spire blocks, all spires shall have facades that correspond to each other, i.e. are modelled in a similar manner and harmoniously coherent. They are in the so-called 'brick style', one of the formal variants of the 19th-century eclectic style, which is particularly common in the architecture of industrial buildings, warehouses and other buildings of an economic nature.
The artistic character of the buildings is determined by the rhythmic division of the facades with pilasters and strong, figurative brickwork cornices. The bricks used are of two tonalities: yellow sand and red clay. The red bricks are used for pilasters, cornices and other structural details, as well as horizontal bands in the planes of the yellow brick walls. Bricks of both tonalities are also layered in alternating courses in the ahivolts of the lintels of the columns.
The artistic image of the brickwork reflects the different artistic handwriting of each individual architect - the architect R.
Pflug in a more general monumental expression, the eclectic buildings of K. Felsko are distinguished by their accentuated relief construction, the two built to designs by J. F. Baumanis are in applied restrained forms, the three built to designs by R. Schmaeling.