Tērbatas street

Buildings No. 14, 15/17 and 33/35 are gems of Art Nouveau architecture.

The so-called Ķeniņi Grammar School on Tērbatas Street 15/17 every Rigan has passed by was designed in 1905 by the most prominent architects of the first independence period Eižens Laube and Konstantīns Pēkšēns. The building is one of the first ones built in the style of national romanticism and a wonderful world-scale model of national Art Nouveau, during the construction of which particular attention was paid to national references and material selection. For example, Atis Ķeniņš had wanted travertine shivers of the Staburags rock to be used for the production of the decorative plates of the facade. The window apertures, however, are made with a beveled side, inspired by the Latvian farmsteads. Continue reading...