Opposite the Museum “Riga Art Nouveau Centre” apartment house in Alberta iela 11 – one of the masterpieces of National Romanticism by architect Eižens Laube. In 1999, in an expert survey, Eižens Laube was recognized as the most important personality in Latvian architecture of the 20th century.
The following materials are used - travertine, plaster of different textures, wood and other natural materials. A motif of the sun adorning the bay windows is made of copper strips on the background of natural Thuringian slate surface. Several modest ornaments of ethnographic origin that adorn the entrance portal are transformed into generalised rounded and figurative patterns characteristic of the Art Nouveau, according to personal creative manner of E. Laube. Darkish grey colour of the finish is characteristic of the buildings of National Romanticism.
Text material using Dr. arch. Dr. arch. Jānis Krastiņš studies. Photo by Margarita Fedina, Marika Vanaga.
