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This week's show "Stop lane" route no. 114 - KTU buildings. Actors of this route: architect prof. Vytautas Dičius and KTU emeritus, prof. Romualdas Baltrušis. The team of the "Stop lane" show will start the route at the Kaunas railway station, where one of the most productive Soviet modernist Kaunas architects - prof. Vytautas Dičius, who will soon celebrate his 90th anniversary. "I used to tell the students not to start working on the facade. A facade is a garment with which an architect covers his shame," the architect will say. With Prof. The V. Dičiumi show team will visit several objects designed by him. One of them is the former store "Buitis" on Vytautas avenue. Although the building was designed as a furniture store, on its 4 floors you could buy everything from sanitary ware to porcelain dishes. Today, the building has been renovated, the "saw" shape of the facade has remained, and according to the architect, the positive has turned into a negative. We will also visit the Gričiupis stream valley, where the townspeople's cows used to graze, and today the KTU student campus stands. Together with prof. With Vytautas Dičius, we will visit the KTU Faculty of Construction, whose modern black and white window strip was criticized by the Soviet authorities. The building of the Faculty of Radioelectronics, with a nearby fountain-pool guarded by the "Thunderbolt" sculpture by Juozs Ruzgos. Faculty of Chemistry and a V-shaped monolithic building with two auditoriums and a laboratory. In 2010, all three KTU faculty buildings were entered into the Register of Cultural Values. Together with KTU emeritus prof. Romualdus Baltruši will also visit the interwar Research Laboratory. The palace, designed by architect Vytautas Landsbergis Žemkalnis, was recognized internationally last year. The US-based philanthropist John Paul Getty Foundation selected the building as one of the 10 most outstanding architectural objects representing the cultural heritage of the 20th century. The show STOP JUSTA - Sundays, 11:00 on LRT PLUS. Let's communicate on social networks: Facebook: / stopjuosta Instagram: / stop_juosta