A Look at New Lithuanian Life / Cohesive Urban Plaza Design by German Architecture Practice 3deluxe

by Mallory Budy | July 27th, 2020

This week at officeinsight, while our work-from-home status was alive and well, our minds wandered to Lithuania, and a new urban development project located in that country’s pioneering city of Kaunas. The project site is the new home of a “hybrid skatepark, playground, and urbane living room” plaza, as German architecture firm 3deluxe describes it. The site, now called V-Plaza, is a thoroughfare of workspaces, cafĂ©s, and pedestrian life in modern day Lithuania, and its project notes were too good to pass up without sharing them with you. “In the midst of a newly designed building ensemble boasting bright facades and ultramodern workspaces, the German architecture practice has created a visionary plaza that is a celebration of contemporary mobility. Cyclists and scooters cruise along organically curved levels, between them oases of tranquility, water features, cafes, and restaurants.” V-Plaza – An Urban Development  “What was previously a largely unused space adjoined …