Abandoned Vilnius Concert Hall (Lazdynai)

In the Lazdynai residential district of Vilnius — itself a Soviet-era architectural showcase that won a Lenin Prize for urban planning — an abandoned concert and events hall stands as a monument to faded ambition. The building's dramatic modernist form, with sweeping concrete curves and vast glazed facades, was designed to serve as the cultural heart of the model Soviet district. Now abandoned for decades, the building has become a haunting ruin. Vegetation grows through cracked concrete, water pools in the auditorium, and the once-grand foyer is littered with debris. The contrast between the building's optimistic original design and its current state of decay makes it a powerful metaphor for the collapse of the Soviet project in Lithuania.