Why!!! not destroy many Soviet era apartments in Riga and major cities? There is a lot of risk of collapse and it is very bad for the beauty of the city. Water and gas pipes are too old. It is very wasteful in space utilization. and Is there any area ongoing reconstruction or completed? Where is it?
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Rīga has beauty? That run-down, chaotic and depressive shithole looks worse and worse with each visit I am forced to make. It does not help, that people in Karosta dress better than people in Rīga do, and that they have better hygine as well.
It will get a lot worse, before it gets even slightly better…
Give me a few bil, I will personally make sure they are razed and new buildings are built in their place.
I agree with everything but space utilization, commie blocks are perhaps the most efficient housing solution.
Alright, so using what money you would buy a replacement apartments for people that live there? Such a stupid take. They should be renovated.
Simple – money.
In the meanwhile i’m curious about that space Utilization problem you mention. There are a lot of run down areas ( broken playgrounds, trashed flower beds, crumbling sidewalks ), but i would hate all of Riga to be packed up concrete tomb like center.
Despite the low quality construction, poor insulation, materials, floor plans and lack of accessibility and modern activities IMHO street and building placement was designed rather well in permanent soviet blocks. Its another story with blocks originally planned as temporary with rows and rows of hruschovkas.
Because our country cannot provide rehousing for these people. It is economically not sustainable. And the new apartment will cost you 10 times the price you pay now in the old building. These Soviet buildings are the only reason most people can even afford an apartment. New apartments, at least the well done ones, cost twice is not more.
Most of them were privatized in the 1990s, meaning that each appartment is someone’s property, you can’t just drmolish someone else’s property, because you don’t like it, at very least it would need to be a government devision combined with compensations and/or new housing for people living there, which is expensive on large scale.
why wasteful? it is nice to gave some green spaces…
Buy me replacement 3 room apartment in New project house, and you can rebuild as you like
Whyy!!! Are you making so many absolutely retarded posts with dumb questions?
Your posts and comments seem like they have not even been given a thought before posting… why????
Valstī uz austrumiem ir diezgan daudz vēlēšanās saplacināt veco padomju arhitektūru.
Bet ja nopietni – uzturēt esošu ēku no resursu viedokļa ir taupīgāk, nekā būvēt jaunu.
Can someone stop this guy from posting ?
Esmu dzirdējusi, ka Krievijā uzsprāgst dzīvokļi, bet Latvijā tik bieži par to nedzirdu. Vēl, kurš par to maksās? No kurienes ņems naudu?
Well house where one of my flats are presented at this screen (staiceles), never heard about any collapses around me (and there is still many years till official safety terms run out) >!(tbh only collapse in Riga i heard about was in zolitude maxima in 2013, which was recently built and had some awards like best new building of year),!< water and gas pipes get old and get replaced everywhere so it’s just basic trouble. It’s not centre so it’s not about beauty, but about affordable housing. Latvia isn’t rich country to afford such projects just cause of aesthetics tbh and more people leave it than move here so there no need to have a spike of buildiing.
(And they still have some benefits compared to buildings in the centre, eg: free parking, guaranteed grass+trees around, elevators, garbage chute and finally no fucking narrow spiral stairs)