HOUSE OF THE FLYING TREES

Latvian architecture studio Open AD has updated an Art Nouveau apartment building in the historical centre of Riga by adding two glassfronted storeys, with cantilevered planters containing evergreen trees, to the original façade. The motif is repeated at the rear of the building, overlooking a courtyard, where the planters are filled with cloud-pruned conifers and bonsai trees,which appear to fly in front of the building. The same trees are used at ground level, at the courtyard entrance, which displays the distinctive blackand-white patterning also found inside the building. openad.lv