RIMI Supermarket
Shopping center building is located in Riga, Valdemara street 112/114, in the block between Valdemara, Kareivju, Hospitalu and Ierednu streets, in the place of former leather-processing factory Kosmoss. Building is located in UNESCO World Culture and Nature heritage territory.
In the beginning of building works, biggest part of existing buildings in the land was demolished.
When project was in beginning stage, decision was made to preserve production buildings facade facing Kareivju street (1885. - 86.g., arch. K.Felsko) and water-tower, they were counted to be enough valuable and characteristic for that time architectural examples.
Preserved Kareivju streets facade was in very bad technical condition. It was demolished and rebuilt newly by photogrammetry materials made in august of 2002.
Shopping center building was designed for trading with food-products (85.7% from total area) and trading with non-consumable goods (14.3% form total area)
Shopping center - 1 storey building. General entrance (from Ierednu street) against Ierednu and Valdemara streets is accented with horizontally divided glass-wall and I-beam form metal grid. In this metal grid are situated advertisements. Rest of the building is cladded with St. Johns red brick (Azeri Tellis).
Preserved water-tower, ingrowed in general entrance facades structure, is part of outdoor café. Its upper wooden construction is reconstructed, making new contemporary metallic grid construction around tower for shopping centers electric sign advertising.
Preserved production buildings façade from new building is separated with glass lane. In preserved buildings roof construction are located technical rooms.
From Hospitalu streets side is place for goods delivery, there also is located technical rooms.
In the lands territory existing trees are preserved where possible. They are supplemented with 8 new trees. Along land border will be green fence h=1.5m.
RIMI Supermarket won Grand Prix award in category Latvias best new building in 2003.