The project for the Communications Regulatory Authority Office on Švitrigailos gatvė in Vilnius was developed by Valdas Ozarinskas together with Gintautas Blažiūnas in 1992. It represents another work from the early years of independence, testing the limits of architectural form and continuing the dialogue with deconstructivism initiated in Ozarinskas’s diploma project – a direction that gained international intellectual momentum following the 1988 MoMA exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture.

At first glance, the silhouette of the model suggests a building that might blend harmoniously into the constellation of modernist administrative structures surrounding it. Closer examination of its details, however, reveals a different intention. The rational volume of the building, elevated on supports, is diagonally intersected – almost ‘pierced’ – by several contrasting planes, destabilising the symmetry of the composition. The tension encoded in this arrangement is further intensified by a complex rhythm of horizontal lines and the sculptural quality of the volume, which evokes associations with a giant industrial object or a railway station. 

– Vaidas Petrulis

Authors: Gintautas Blažiūnas, Valdas Ozarinskas

Photographer: Remigijus Pačėsa

Architecture