Preses Nams marks Staticus’s first venture into the Latvian market. This striking new mixed-use business centre in Riga is as architecturally bold as it is technically demanding.
The building’s defining feature is its exposed structural skeleton, a concrete and steel superstructure that sits outside the building envelope. For Staticus, this meant designing and manufacturing 10,683 m² of unitised single-skin façade units engineered to fit precisely between the concrete floor slabs and the steel superstructure, navigating around the external steel anchors – all while being installed from inside the building.
In 2026, Staticus was awarded an additional scope of 3,041 m² of special vertical glass lamellas for the upper volume of the building. Conceived by the architects to create a visual dialogue between the building’s two volumes, the lamellas produce a dynamic, layered effect: closed and almost opaque when viewed at an angle due to the stacking effect, yet open and transparent from a frontal perspective. This interplay of transparency and enclosure brings the design closer to the original approved concept – differentiating the upper façade from the lower and lending the whole building a lighter, more expressive presence along Krišjāņa Valdemāra iela.
