Piliamiestis

The facades echo the robustness and unevenness of the castle’s rusticated walls in the alternating use of tiles with and without grooves, in the variation of the dimensions of the ceramic tiles and in the nuanced colour differences between them. In this way, he has given a tactile materiality to his architecture. Despite the evident differences in appearance and history between the Old Castle and the new residential architecture on either side of the river, Kriaučiūnas has achieved a natural, yet novel understanding between past and present.