Reconstruction of a four-storey heritage building in central Riga and full conversion into a 38-room boutique hotel — including ground-floor restaurant, basement spa, and roof terrace bar.
An empty four-storey building with a protected façade and a foundation that had partially settled. The client — a boutique hotel operator — wanted 38 keys, a 70-cover restaurant, a basement spa with two treatment rooms, and a public roof terrace with a small bar. All inside a heritage-listed shell.
Foundation stabilisation came first: we underpinned the worst-affected corner with micro-piles and re-levelled two of the load-bearing internal walls before any superstructure work started. The original façade was preserved in full and re-mortared by hand; the inside was rebuilt with new steel beams hung from the existing party walls to free up the floor plate for hotel-grade room layouts.
The basement was excavated an additional 80 cm to give the spa enough headroom. A new lightweight steel structure on the roof carries the bar pavilion without adding load to the original walls.
The hotel opened on schedule for the 2022 spring season. In its first full year of operation it ran at 78% average occupancy and was nominated by a major travel guide as one of the year's best boutique openings in the Baltics.
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