REGENERATION - Turning Kaunas' old factories into art

  • 2007-08-22
  • By Kimberly Kweder
VILNIUS - During the Soviet eraAlgimantas Kancas spent 20 yearsat an architecture firm where heand about 400 employees had littleto no freedom to explore their creativityin project designs.Thankfully, times havechanged. Now the vast majority ofarchitecture and constructioncompanies in Lithuania are freelybreaking ground and embracingnew concepts that were off-limitsduring the Soviet occupation. Inthe process, many architects aremethodically blending contemporarystyles together with old,functional structures.In 1991, Kancas' lifelongdream to manage his own...
 
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