Beautiful winter weather is ruling Latvia for the last 3 days - it's moderately cold (but without wind it's completely nice) and... sunny! I enjoyed a mood boost in such a nice weather. Also decided to count how many really sunny days will be this year in Latvia - these 3 are the first ones. In overall, there are only ~70 sunny days per average in a year here. In comparison - in Greece, there are 300 sunny days per year...

Almost forgot to tell about the building. It is a historical building by Paul Mandelstam on Abrenes street 2, and it serves as a home for several niche schools, for example, children music school is there. I imagine it would be quite appropriate to play Mozart, Bach and other classical geniuses in such a historical building's atmosphere.

"Valdemāra Centrs" was one of the first modern office buildings which was built in Riga in 90ies.

Some week ago there were made heart in the snow at the side of the street which I noticed from my 9th floor window and zoomed in.

View from Radison Blu hotel building towards southern side of the city. The big building in forefront is government (Cabinet of Ministers) building.

Weird house in far southern outskirts of Riga which is stonecutter workroom.

In overall, Riga is low-rise and mid-rise city, and that's the reason why highrises seems something more special here, not like, f.e., in huge megalopolises like Sao Paolo, where they are so many that they lose any charm. Highrise living in Riga can offer unblocked view over almost all city.

In upper picture you see skyline of Imanta, Riga's densest apartment highrise cluster consisting of 10 towers. Second picture shows Panorama Plaza highrises alongside highway to airport (one of them is highest tower in left bank, not including Ķīpsala island). In the third picture, Astra Lux - highest building in right bank Riga, located in Purvciems.