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House of B. Giedraitis and K. Oželis

Kaunas, Lithuania
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Z. Rinkselio nuotrauka, 2019 m.

The building permit for this house on Parados 21 was approved in 1936. The owner of the house who wanted to build a structure on this plot was B. Giedraitis and K. Ozelis. A three-storey brick building was completed in 1937 on the plot according to a design by civil engineer Algirdas Salkauskis. It has a half basement/ half ground floor with two regular floors on top. This semi-basement/ground floor of the structure was shaped due to the location of the plot, which is on a hill. There is also an attic floor, which can be only seen from the west facade of the building. The building uses a moderate and modernist architectural language rather than a historicist language with decorative elements on its facade. It has an asymmetrical facade. The first and second floors have a strict rhythm on their windows which are the same in the vertical axis, and they are surrounded by a plastered brick frame. The two balconies are emphasised with strict forms as if echoing the accentuation of the corner, typical in the architecture of the country at that time. There are six windows on the ground floor; two are on the one side of the main entrance, and the other four are on the other side. The main door has tiles on each side of it, and on top of it is a vertical window providing natural light to the staircase. This window is divided into two at the level of the windowsills of the second floor. The west facade of the building is also asymmetrical, with a balcony at its right corner. There are two windows with brick and plaster frames on the first and second floor, and three are three small windows in the attic. In the same year, on the plot of land of A. Navickis, just up the street, a compositionally harmonious two-storey house was completed to the design of T. Reingardas, with a roof eaves line and the rhythm of the windows that seem to echo the design of A. Salkauskis. Often these two adjacent buildings are mistakenly referred to as one.

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