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Talk about adaptive re-use: Baltic style
The façade of the 152-meter section housing the hostel has been painted white, contrasting with the flaking, brownish-grey concrete of the rest of the flat-roofed, six-story structure that hugs the coastline in eight blocks measuring half a kilometer each in length. Only a thin screen of trees separates it from the sandy beach. All the rooms in the hostel face the sea.

The façade of the 152-meter section housing the hostel has been painted white, contrasting with the flaking, brownish-grey concrete of the rest of the flat-roofed, six-story structure that hugs the coastline in eight blocks measuring half a kilometer each in length. Only a thin screen of trees separates it from the sandy beach. All the rooms in the hostel face the sea.
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The façade of the 152-meter section housing the hostel has been painted white, contrasting with the flaking, brownish-grey concrete of the rest of the flat-roofed, six-story structure that hugs the coastline in eight blocks measuring half a kilometer each in length. Only a thin screen of trees separates it from the sandy beach. All the rooms in the hostel face the sea.