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In the Northern part of the capital, the company “Eikos statyba” has already begun construction of the multifunctional 19,000 sq m office building “North Star”.
In the Northern part of the capital, the company “Eikos statyba” has already begun construction of the multifunctional 19,000 sq m office building “North Star”. Since Tuesday, two tower cranes have been rotating at the construction site, and about 200 workers, who have come from all over Lithuania, are working in two shifts.
The company won this work contract worth approximately LTL 110 million in a tender organized by the project developer MG Valda, in which nine companies participated. The project should be completed within 16 months, so the builders are already in a hurry.
However, according to the company’s representatives, there are no plans to work in three shifts at this facility, because night work is less efficient and more expensive to pay, and the challenges of the project are not only the large scale of construction and the short project implementation time, but also strict quality requirements.
“We will not stand still, because we hope that this is not the last joint project with the demanding and serious client “MG Valda”, says Rytis Ivanauskas, director of the company “Eikos statyba”. This is not the first project of the company, in which the client and contractor are companies competing in the market.
The idea of the multifunctional project, which will consist of an office building and a seven-story residential building, is a balance between work and life, so the two different volumes of the building are connected by a single architectural language, a combination of natural stone, glass, and metal.
The young and energetic project architects Simonas Talandzevičius (32) and Mindaugas Leliūga (33) hope that the completed building will become an easily memorable city landmark: “maybe not as famous as the Eiffel Tower or the Sydney Opera House, but a truly recognizable symbol of the neighborhood.”
Architects consider the classic buildings of Danish architect Jorn Utzon, who designed the Sydney Opera House, to be a benchmark of good architectural taste and try to follow his ideas in their own work.
Therefore, they tried to give the project in the Northern Town the “polished form of nature”, which the architects hope to convey through a successful ratio of glass and stone on the building facades.