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THE ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES AND PREVALENCE OF CONTEMPORARY LANDMARKS IN KAUNAS CITY
Author(s) -
Almantas Bružas
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
mokslas - lietuvos ateitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2029-2341
pISSN - 2029-2252
DOI - 10.3846/mla.2010.052
Subject(s) - cityscape , landmark , architecture , architectural engineering , space (punctuation) , character (mathematics) , geography , aesthetics , visual arts , computer science , engineering , cartography , archaeology , art , operating system , geometry , mathematics

The article focuses on contemporary architectural accents and their architectural features in Kaunas city. The paper also analyses the prevalence of contemporary architectural accents in the city. Some tendencies towards creating Kaunas landmarks, relationship between them and the built environment and aesthetic measures are discussed on the basis of analyzing the most important and characteristic sacral, commercial, industrial and residential architecture patterns. It can be concluded that contemporary materials as well as a lightweight construction and the courage of architects helped with producing the image of modern architectural landmark, though the spread of Kaunas contemporary landmarks has a chaotic character and the cityscape has not been enriched by the powerful dominants of space structure.

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