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Representing Latvia on the global stage: House Comet named a 2026 ArchDaily Building of the Year Nominee!

It is the world's largest community-driven architecture award. The nomination stage begins on January 27 and runs until February 10. This stage determines the finalists that will move on to the final vote 🤞

https://boty.archdaily.com/us/2026/candidates/182681/house-comet-slash-gaiss

Apartment on Strēlnieku Street.

Warm tones and textiles are used throughout the bedrooms and the lounge area around the sofa. The parents’ bedroom features an open wardrobe — a piece of furniture that serves as a room divider and incorporates a small home office.
The curtain fixtures are concealed within the ceiling, visually extending the height and presence of the windows.

📷 Alvis Rozenbergs

FOTO: Atpakaļ pie autentiskā. Piecistabu dzīvoklis Mežaparkā, kas atguvis savu vēsturisko elpu Kā atjaunot zudušo autentiskumu senā ēkā, izmantojot šodienas arhitektūras valodu?

Apartment on Strēlnieku Street.

A rare photograph capturing one of the architects behind the project - Melzoba.
Two doors leading to the bedrooms are integrated into the built-in storage unit, finished in the same grey wood-fiber panels. A dining table continues the kitchen countertop in matching oak veneer, illuminated by stainless-steel fixtures designed by the Ukrainian company .kouple .
The two bathrooms feature curved walls around the shower and bathtub, combining materials of varying textures, including wood-fiber paneled furniture and terrazzo tiles. The curved walls are clad in warm-toned, subtly uneven tiles, adding a tactile component.

📷 Alvis Rozenbergs

House Comet published on Archdaily:

House Comet / GAISS Completed in 2024 in Riga, Latvia. Images by Madara Kuplā. House Comet is a dwelling for a young and creative family in a green, secluded neighborhood of Riga near the Daugava River. The interaction of urban...

Apartment on Strēlnieku Street.

An apartment in a new residential block has got a new layout for the family's needs.
A curved wall layout allows direct sunlight to reach deep into the apartment, all the way to the entrance door. Built-in storage furniture extends throughout the entire apartment, beginning at the entrance as a wardrobe and continuing seamlessly into the kitchen. The vertical cabinet elements are crafted from grey wood-fiber panels, while the horizontal kitchen volumes and the cooking island are finished in a contrasting, warmly toned oak veneer. The clean, minimalist surfaces are complemented by spherical concrete handles. The material palette is completed by a final accent - the vivid red tomatoes in a painting by Gundega Rancāne.

📷 Alvis Rozenbergs

Reading the room.
Exhibition

Our installation is not only an observation of the space but also serves as a functional design — we have created a large «table» for displaying publications and benches for reading. The surface of the central «table» is a strip of linoleum hung in the room, with the gallery walls serving as the table legs.
To a certain extent, it is a continuation of the approach used in our other exhibition and installation projects — to create the greatest possible spatial effect with the least possible consumption of physical materials. This allows us to reduce resource use and work within short-term scenography budgets.

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Reading The Room.
Exhibition

The publications selected for the exhibition all deal with the observation of space in one way or another. When planning the installation, we sought inspiration in the real, physical gallery space. On an ideological level, we wanted to leave the space free of furniture, completely stripped. We imagined a scenario in which, by peeling away the layer of linoleum, we could see what lies beneath.

Ietekmīgais arhitektūras, interjera un dizaina portāls Dezeen raksta par Komētas māju Pārdaugavā 💥

Gaiss tops red home in Latvia with corrugated metal roof Red-painted timber walls and a white corrugated metal roof form the "bold and distinctive" exterior of House Comet, a family home in Riga, Latvia, designed by local architecture studio Gaiss.

Līdz 6. decembrim galerijā «Daļa laika»!

Izstāde «Lasīt telpu» pēta cilvēka un telpas attiecības ← FOLD «Izstādei atlasītās publikācijas visas vienā vai otrā veidā runā par telpas vērošanu. Plānojot instalāciju, impulsu idejām meklējām galerijas «Daļa laika» reālajā, fiziskajā telpā,» stāsta Kārlis Melzobs no arhitektu biroja «Gaiss». Viņš norāda, ka divtūkstošo gadu r...

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