RIGA | Z-Towers | 130m | 34fl | U/C

[RipleyLV]

I don't know why ya'll worrying about, there has not been any official confirmation about the change of the design, at least I haven't heard of one.

[Ubertino de Casale]

Originally Posted by Martins

Photo Update
Z-Towers 22.01.2008
Currently building the last underground level -4

You have something like Warsaw´s Palace of Culture and Science building in Riga?

[gragox]

Originally Posted by Ubertino de Casale

You have something like Warsaw´s Palace of Culture and Science building in Riga?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...s_%28Moscow%29

[makaveli6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian...my_of_Sciences
corrected

[Ubertino de Casale]

Originally Posted by makaveli6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian...my_of_Sciences
corrected

Thanks mate. We in Slovakia are missing these jewels of socrealism. Lastly I was amazed by Square of Independence in Kyjev. We can only envy you this kind of architecture..

[RipleyLV]

Almost a month has passed since we saw new pics, any updates?

[Vecais Sakarnis]

I passed by there this week but there was no point to take pictures - zero progress, it seems the construction has stopped once again.

[Martins]

Z-Towers 13.06.2011

[Nneznajka]

u/c

[RipleyLV]

In 30 days they managed to build (almost) 5th floor pillars!

[PeoplePower]

Originally Posted by dzjelejs

When I saw your location I started to laugh yeah, we`ve got that system fo 50 years, and look where we are now, comparing with west europe.

But if we talk about Z-towers - why the hell they needed to change design, if they`re already buit part of towers? Does all design thing really makes such a big diffrence in costs?

Thats because Gorbachev destroyed the government. Look at China, it will have the world's largest economy before 2016. Communism does not mean a gov controled economy, can be market, but it would be better having the unity of the USSR, and the market economy for a better country, now latvia is poor, cant do anything, and projects like this take forever to get built with their super fast "U/C, On-Hold, U/C, On-Hold, Cancelled" style of building. It is just annoying how they build like that. I say Just start it and finish it!

[Norxx]

Since when MODERATORS have started to tolarate posts with political subtexts comming from this dude all the time ? I thought this was ( with an exception of Politics tread ) an architectual forum.

[PeoplePower]

Originally Posted by Norxx

Since when MODERATORS have started to tolarate posts with political subtexts comming from this dude all the time ? I thought this was ( with an exception of Politics tread ) an architectual forum.

Politics goes in with the construction of the Z-Towers. If there is curruption, then projects get put on-hold or somthing. You get it, you just need to think about it.

[Vecais Sakarnis]

Well this thread is really not the right place for political discussion. You can always open a thread in Skybar with a topic "What is better: socialism or capitalism?" or smth like that

[Jelgavnieks]

China is a crap hole, just like every communist country. Maybe their economy is growing because Americans are building factories there, but human rights, pollution in China are so bad nobody wants to live there. The government there is basically like KGB-NKVD-Čeka we had here some decades ago. People are treated like slaves and your business can be destroyed overnight if the communist party decides it does not like you. Who wants to live in a terrible place like that?

And North Korea is a prison for 20 million people. Nothing more.

[novaguy]

what are the odds of this building going ahead?

[ABC LV]

That is some bad quality trolling, can mods remove that idiot from the forum?

[Gatis]

Which one you mean? @novaguy asked quite normal question IMHO

[makaveli6]

I think he's talking about PeoplePower.

[LV994-CB]

Originally Posted by Jelgavnieks

China is a crap hole, just like every communist country. Maybe their economy is growing because Americans are building factories there, but human rights, pollution in China are so bad nobody wants to live there. The government there is basically like KGB-NKVD-Čeka we had here some decades ago. People are treated like slaves and your business can be destroyed overnight if the communist party decides it does not like you. Who wants to live in a terrible place like that?

And North Korea is a prison for 20 million people. Nothing more.

And that says someone who probably has never visited China in his life.
China is definitely not a communist country for many years...probably never was really communist.
Its becoming a modern country with loads of opportunities...you're strongly exaggerating, even to extent it becomes ridiculous .
I for once didn't see any slaves there .

I cant tell you much about poorer regions of the country, there are crap holes but so is in most of the nations. Just need to understand its a nation of 1,35 billion, there always will be large heavy polluted areas and other problems.