First skyscraper in Vilnius: how modernity desacralised the city skyline
First skyscraper in Vilnius: how modernity desacralised the city skyline 1 Basanavičiaus Street, 1907. / LMA Vrublevskių Library Most contemporary skyscrapers that dominate the skyline of Vilnius are located near the Neris River waterfront. The very first ‘skyscraper’, however, was built over a century ago during the Tsarist era, writes Artūras Savko for the Neakivaizdinis Vilnius magazine. A huge building in the neoclassicist and neo-baroque styles is located atop the street named after the Lithuanian National Revival activist Jonas Basanavičius. On its roof, a giant sign used to p...
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