Rīgas torņu skaitītājs (Riga's Towers Counter) is relatively new bronze monument next to Swedbank building.
The bronze man is sitting on the grass and counts innumerable Riga towers.
This sculpture is made as a gift to Riga by donations of Swedbank clients; sculpted by Olga; Shilova; photographed by Mike.

Labels: art, autumn, kipsala, monuments, statues, towers

Disko 21 is certainly a night club on Raina boulevard in the very center of Riga.
It is not a posh place like Studio 69 or recently opened blazing Push, Disko 21 is more for people around 30 or older who know what the scene is.
BTW, I guess this is the only night club in Riga where you can sing Karaoke :)

Labels: center, clubs, night, nightlife, writings

Steiku Haoss (literally Steak Chaos) is one of the best places in Riga if you are looking for tasty juicy steak.
Pros: Rich menu, good service
Cons: Relatively high prices even for Old Town
This Wild Wild West restaurant is located on Livu square.

Labels: american, buildings, food, restaurants, snow, vecriga, winter

This year's first snow was on 17th October, unfortunately I couldn't make any good picture that day.
Low clouds turned Riga into gray today. During such weather Riga looks so pessimistic, I could say even Soviet :)
Улица Кирова (Kirov street, nowadays Elizabetes street) together with blurred Academy of Science at the background tone up this feeling.

Labels: buildings, center, roofs, snow, soviet, streets, weather, winter

Finally, after two years of blogging I have changed overloaded standard blogger design for riga.in
I like black color. Black is good, but in the age of Web 2.0 smart websites are usually white :)
Screenshot of old design is posted in order to always remember how Riga Daily Photo was with Black Design.

P.S. I rearranged many things, but some layout bugs could still exist. Please feel free to point out anything that looks strange. Thank you.

Labels: black, blog, design

EF Dambis (EF Bank) is a made-up name for overgrown strip in Daugava by analogy with AB Dambis. This is the third bank on Daugava river towards the sea.
Raft cafe is part of Fabrikas Restorans, the fancy restaurant in Kipsala.

Labels: boats, buildings, cafes, daugava, harbours, kipsala, night, restaurants, sunset

Today is a birthday of riga.in :) 2 years have passed since Riga Daily Photo was started. Wow, we are taking the sea! :)
A lot of work has been done - about 750 photos were published, first appearance in press, transfer to new domain.
And there are still many ideas and things to do in order to improve riga.in and get this photoblog to even higher level.
For example, I will tell you a little secret, in a few days riga.in will have a brand new stylish smart design :)

Of course all of this take tons of resources. In fact riga.in is not created to make any money hence it is nonprofit project, but on this very special day if you want to help to riga.in, then you are very welcome to make a small gift :)

Prieka and Будем! (Cheers!)

Labels: blog, boats, daugavgriva, nature, people, sea, ships, towers, transport

This metal doors of the former NKVD building (later KGB) is untypical monument, which will always remind to people how many victims were tortured and killed because of wrong political views during the early Soviet times aka Stalin's era.
Today is the Monthly theme, which is Doorways. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

Labels: buildings, center, criminal, doorways, history, monuments, police, politics, soviet, windows

Tekila Bum is another place in Old Town to go out for drinking in Riga. By the way it is a night club as well.
How fast are you able to drink one meter of Tequila? :)

Labels: clubs, lights, night, nightlife, vecriga

Dailes teātris (Theater of Arts) is one of the few still working Theaters in Riga.
Initially the Daile Theatre was housed in a building at Lacplesa street, but in 1977 the theatre moved to a purpose-built Soviet style structure at Brivibas street 75.
How often do yo go to theater? Isn't it boring by comparison with other more modern entertainment?

Labels: art, buildings, center, culture, entertainment, soviet, streets, theaters

The wooden building, located on Skolas iela 3, was built in 1905 using German Romanticism and Jugendstil styles.
The German writing on top Arbeit ist des Burgers Zierde (The work is citizen's adornment) is one of still living evidences that at some time Riga was German city.
See also another photo of German Architecture in Riga.

Labels: buildings, german, jugendstil, roofs, wooden, writings

For the past couple days everybody in Latvia was speaking about Meteorite smashed Latvia country near Mazsalaca, which is about 140km north from Riga.
Recently it was revealed that Meteorite is a hoax made up to attract world attention to Latvia :)
Yes, we have a good sense of humor :) Check also other attention getting actions:
Parade of Blonde women
Longest Dance
Longest Run
Cola and Mentos record

Labels: ads, brown, country, funny, incidents, nature, people, vidzeme

Suddenly this 22 years old man became a hero. His action was a cause for common talk today.
In order to see the whole Riga, he climbed on top of the Vansu Tilts tower, which is 110 meters tall :)
The police blocked traffic over bridge for more than 4 hours, before man agreed to come down.

Labels: bridges, events, incidents, people, towers

Despite being very expensive Patrick Hellmann Collection (aka PHC) has the cheapest fashion website ever.
I like this photo because of depicting the lively nature of motion and Riga traffic. It reminds of New York, isn't? :)
See also Emporio Armani shop in Riga.

Labels: buildings, cars, center, shopping, streets, traffic, wealth

Whenever I see such yellow-red trucks of Emergency Service, I always remember Russian movie Day Watch.

Labels: buildings, cars, rain, roads, skyscrapers, transport, trees