Steel and glass exoskeleton transforms abandoned warehouse into concert venue

Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall.
Called Hanza Platform, the venue is in a cargo warehouse that was formerly part of a large freight railway station on the edge of the Latvian capital's historic city centre.The abandoned warehouse, the last of 15 that once stood by the train tracks, had been deemed structurally unsound.
Sudraba Arhitektüra built an external load-bearing