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On November 19, the SCL confirmed the decision of the Vilnius Regional Court in February this year to dismiss the action of the Chamber of Architects.
According to the Supreme Court, the provision of the Architecture Law granting the Chamber of Architects the right to protect the public interest entered into force on November 1, 2017 and can therefore only be applied to legal situations arising after of that date.
“The Chamber of Architects does not have the right to appeal to a court for violations of the public interest in the activity of architects committed before the right to protect the public interest granted by law,” is written in the SCL ruling.
Photo by Irmantas Gelūnas / 15min / Vero Cafe on Gediminas avenue
According to the SCL, the contested acts were adopted in August 2014 and February 2017, when the Chamber did not have the authority to protect the public interest.
The Chamber of Architects asked the court to declare illegal the construction of the building at the intersection of Gediminas avenue and A. Jakšto streets, and to force the swimming pool of the Vilnius Galgiris Dengtas company, which had a glazed part, to remove all the changes within three months.
The “Vilnius Žalgiris indoor pool”, after receiving permits, glazed the open floor of the building on Gedimino Avenue. 27 part of the ground floor and wanted to set up a seasonal café there. More than 3,2 thousand. square meters of premises in the building that the company has managed since 2007.
The decisions in the management of the premises next to the Vero café in the summer of 2018 caused much discussion in the public space.
This building is included in the Register of Cultural Heritage, its valuable features are architectural solutions of facades, volumetric details. The Chamber of Architects appealed to the court in August 2018, stating that this was the first case they had started under the authority granted by the Architecture Law to protect the public interest in court.
According to the project of the architects Stanislavas Mužinskis and Ježis Soltanas, the Ministry of Health was located in the building that arose in 1938 during the Soviet era, and a few years ago the Vilnius municipality transferred the abandoned spaces to the artist incubator “Fluxus Ministry “.
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