In 1974 he, together with colleagues, was awarded the Lenin Prize in architecture for the design of Lazdynai, a residential area of Vilnius.
Initially the authorities monitored the project with suspicion, but eventually it was accepted, and in 1974 the leading figures of the Lazdynai project (architects Vytautas Čekanauskas, Vytautas Brėdikis, Vytautas Balčiūnas, and Gediminas Valiuškis and engineers Algimantas Kleinotas and Vincentas Šileika) were awarded the Lenin Prize in architecture.
Gediminas Kirkilas | Gediminas Avenue | Gediminas | The Court's palace in the Gediminas Avenue | Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas | Gediminas Valiuškis | Gediminas Motuza | Gediminas Bagdonas |