Lucky Homes by SAVO: clinker brick mid-rise on Gerosios Vilties, Vilnius

• Lucky Homes at Gerosios Vilties g. 27

  Lucky Homes by SAVO is the group's Lithuanian project. Lucky Homes 1 stands on Gerosios Vilties g. 27 in Vilnius; the second stage, Lucky Homes 2, is a separate address on Kalvarijų g. 55. The street runs through Naujamiestis, the New Town district south-west of the historic centre, a part of the city where older blocks, Soviet-era housing and new buildings stand on the same pavement. The scale was set by that street. These are mid-rise buildings, not towers: they hold the building line, keep to the height of their neighbours and put their entrances where people walk. The same address carries the group's registered seat, which is set out further down this page.

• Dark clinker brick and glazed stair towers

  The facades are dark clinker brick. Clinker is fired hard, takes Baltic rain and frost without staining and keeps its colour, so the buildings are meant to look the same in their twentieth winter as in their first. Against the brick the stair towers are fully glazed, which gives daylight on the stairs during the day and marks each entrance after dark. Balconies are recessed into the mass rather than hung off it. This is European city architecture and it is deliberately unlike the group's Ukrainian district. Evromisto by SAVO is a low-rise district spread over open land with large closed courtyards; Lucky Homes is a compact brick block on a capital-city street. Same company, same full cycle, two different building cultures — and that is a fair way to read what the group can do.

• The apartment lines: HARMONIJA, ŽAISMAS, OAZĖ, ŠVELNUMAS

  The flats are grouped into four named lines: HARMONIJA, ŽAISMAS, OAZĖ and ŠVELNUMAS. The names are Lithuanian — harmony, play, an oasis, gentleness — and each line describes the character the designers gave that group of flats rather than a price bracket. It is a practical device. A buyer looking at the project starts from how a home should feel and read, and only then goes into orientation, floor and layout. Current availability by line is handled on enquiry; this page does not list areas, layouts or prices.

• Grounds planted to be used

  The grounds were designed with the buildings, not left over once the brickwork was done. Hydrangeas are planted along the paths, young trees are set where they will throw shade onto the seating as they grow, and the lawns between them are kept open rather than cut up into fenced strips. That has an everyday effect: a resident walking home from the trolleybus stop passes planting rather than parking, and the courtyard is somewhere to sit instead of somewhere to cross. In the city the group also runs the café Lucky Bagel, one of several service businesses it operates alongside its buildings.

• UAB Savo investicija: the registered seat of the group

  The company behind the project is UAB Savo investicija, company code 304499183, VAT number LT100011304015, registered at Gerosios Vilties g. 27-131, Vilnius, Lithuania. The group's legal entity is a Lithuanian company, inside the European Union, working in euros — and it is registered at the address of the project described on this page. SAVO has been on the market since 2006, has built 320 000 m² and has 52 000 m² in the active construction stage. The group works the whole cycle itself: land, concept, design, construction, sales, commissioning and the territory afterwards. Enquiries, including from suppliers and agents, go to [email protected]; the group website is savobi.com.

Vilnius, Lithuania

• Vilnius is the capital and the largest city of Lithuania, set in the south-east of the country where the Vilnia river joins the Neris.
• The Old Town is on the UNESCO World Heritage list and is one of the largest surviving medieval centres in northern Europe.
• Vilnius Airport stands about five kilometres south of the centre, with a short rail shuttle and city buses to the main railway station.
• The A1 motorway links the city to Kaunas and the port of Klaipeda, the A2 runs north-west to Panevezys, and the Rail Baltica corridor is being built to tie Lithuania into the European-gauge network.
• Lithuania is a member state of the European Union and of NATO and uses the euro, so property here is bought and sold in euros under EU law.
• The city economy leans on financial technology, business-service centres for international companies, laser optics and life sciences.
• Vilnius University, founded in the sixteenth century, and several younger universities keep a steady student and graduate population in the city.
• Buyers are mostly Lithuanians, including families returning from abroad, together with EU nationals who move to the city for work in its technology and service sectors.

Terms on this subject

• Energy performance certificate

  The energy certificate rates the building, not the household. Read as a comparison between dwellings it is useful; read as a forecast of next winter's bill it is not.

• Entrega de llaves y garantías del promotor

  La entrega de llaves es una cita con un acta al final. Lo que se escriba en ese acta, y desde qué fecha corren los plazos de la LOE, decide cómo van los primeros años en una vivienda nueva.