While the local context has been revalued over the past decade, construction practices have become increasingly internationalised; projects are being carried out further and further afield and design tools are becoming increasingly virtual. This contradiction was faced by the architectural duo Dalia Puodžiūtė Seniūnienė and Julius Seniūnas when they designed their Atlas pavilion in the historic centre of Vilnius, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that required an extremely delicate approach, while the architects themselves were working from Brussels, just under two thousand kilometres away.

In 2022, the Lithuanian National Museum launched a call for tenders for a temporary exhibition pavilion in the New Arsenal Park opposite the museum, at the foot of Gediminas Hill, named after the legendary founder of the city and where some of the oldest fortifications still stand today.