As a model of Kaunas’ enduring architectural relevance and progressive attitude towards education and sustainability, the National Science and Innovation Centre inspires a daring new vision for the future of man, nature, and machine. A modular gridded volume—a nod to Kaunas’ modernist tradition—rises from the landscape, transforming to extend tree-like branches into the soil beneath.
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This interplay between the rational and the expressive reveals the radical potential for discovery and inspiration at the intersection of nature and science. With an iconic form that fuses cutting-edge sustainability, modular flexibility, and playful discovery, the Centre conveys the story Kaunas seeks to tell the world.
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