Hotel Pacai, Vilnius building designed by architect Saulius Mikštas:

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New accommodation for Design Hotels located within what is regarded as the most magnificent 17th century mansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The property offers 104 guest rooms, 2 conference spaces, a lounge bar, and 2 dining outlets.

Republic of Lithuania

Officially titled the Republic of Lithuania, this is a country in Northern Europe, the largest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark.

It borders Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest.

The country has an estimated population of 3 million as of 2013, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. The Lithuanians are a Baltic people, and the official language, Lithuanian, is one of only two living languages (together with Latvian) in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

The Kingdom of Lithuania was created in 1253. During the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe: present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia were the territories of the Grand Duchy.

With the Lublin Union of 1569, Lithuania and Poland formed a voluntary two-state union, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth lasted more than two centuries, until neighboring countries systematically dismantled it from 1772-95, with the Russian Empire annexing most of Lithuania’s territory.

Lithuania’s Act of Independence was signed on 1918. Starting in 1940, Lithuania was occupied first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany. In 1944 the Soviet Union reoccupied the country. In 1990, a year before formal break-up of the Soviet Union, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare the restoration of independent State of Lithuania.

The country is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, a full member of the Schengen Agreement and NATO.

Source: wikipedia

National Concert Hall Competition in Vilnius building designed by Orange Architects, in collaboration with ABT and Felixx:

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The architectural concept for the National Concert Hall is based on the duality of two spatial themes: ‘the mountain’ and ‘the cloud’.

This index page is for architectural projects in this Eastern Europe country on the e-architect website

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