The Czech city of Aš – close to the bank of the Ohře, a tributary of the Elbe River, and to the German border – has a Park of Memories that harnesses the area’s geographical and symbolic potential. The objective of the project was to honor the past a
In the context of a major operation intended to reinvigorate the riverside promenades, new uses have been introduced into former ice-storage vaults situated at piers on both banks.
The 2023 winner of the Czech Architect Award, given by the Czech Chamber of Architects, this 57-meter-long footbridge replaced the original overpass on the site, built in 1981. A work of the Prague-based practice of Lukáš Ehl and Tomáš Koumar, the st
In Ostrava, capital of the Czech region of Moravia-Silesia, the Polish firm founded by Robert Konieczny, KWK Promes, was entrusted to transform a slaughterhouse that was in a state of ruin into an art gallery. In the superposition of layers showing t
The Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, in collaboration with the engineers of the Ramboll group, has won the competition to transform the main railway station of the city of Prague. The project reconnects the historic station with the Vrchlického
Walking on the Charles Bridge, amid so many baroque saints and the breathtaking views of Prague, one easily forgets about the basic purpose of its construction in the year 1357: to connect the castle to the town core on the opposite bank. It was the
This house, with the appearance of a brick fortress, goes up in a quiet suburb northwest of Prague, within close proximity to Villa Müller by Adolf Loos. The construction – which can be divided into three apartments – is formed by sixteen tangent cyl
The Spanish firms MACH (Laia Gelonch Llongarrium, Marc Subirana Ribera) + IDEA (Carlos Maristany Ortiz, Luis Bellera Fernández de la Cruz, Eduardo Palao Valverde) have placed first in the competition for new sport facilities in Žatec, a town in the L
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won the competition to build the Vltava Philharmonic Hall by the river in Prague’s Holešovice district. Barozzi Veiga and Bevk Perović arhitekti placed second and third. In BIG’s winning scheme, the building is accessibl
The Czech studio Atelier-r, headed by Miroslav Pospíšil, has refurbished Helfštýn Castle. It is located in Týn nad Bečvou, a municipality in the Olomouc Region of the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Helfštýn dates back to the 14th century and t
Situated on a narrow plot and conceived as a constellation of buildings, the Česká Spořitelna headquarters are inspired by Hamburg’s Kontorhäuser district to develop a campus that shares proportions and material qualities to create a coherent image..
The Czech firm Mjölk architects, headed by Jan Mach and Jan Vondrák, has refurbished an abandoned cottage in the Horská Kamenice river valley, in Jiřetín pod Bukovou, a municipality in the Liberec Region. In a beech forest, surrounded by mountains,
The aim is to bring new life to the heart of Prague by creating a unique and distinctive destination for the public, building both on the important location and the richness of the surrounding architecture. Eschewing conventional responses to shoppin
Within the plan for the new district of Smíchov City, two buildings of offices, with commercial and public spaces at ground level, use the same structural grid and prefab concrete elements of different colors on the facade for sun protection...
The firm of Steven Holl – with offices in New York and Beijing – in collaboration with Architecture Acts – a Prague practice established by Hana Petrik and Martin Kropac – has won the competition to build the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra’s new home
Rising 55 m at an altitude of 1,116 m, overlooking the Morava Valley, this structure with a frame of wood and nodes of steel offers two options for descent: either a pleasant walk or a stainless steel slide stretching 101 m...
Although when seen from the outside the building appears like a bold volume clad with plants, the inside is a luminous space opening on to views of the surroundings.
La biblioteca de la Facultad de Arte de la Universidad Masarik está situada en el interior de una manzana de la ciudad de Brno en la que conviven tanto edificios docentes como residenciales, desarrollados a partir del siglo XIX. En este contexto hete
At the beginning of the nineties ten young men abandoned what was then Czechoslovakia to follow their religious convictions and enter the Cistercian abbey of Sept-Fons, in Burgundy. At the end of that same decade, the increasing number of Czech monks
For much of the 20th century, architects have put a lot of effort into formulating accessible housing typologies. Residential building, however, is so inexorably tied to local traditions and economic circumstances that the term ‘cheap’, applied to ho
Architects are taught to materialize what springs up from blank paper, but the challenge we face nowadays is not so much to build, as to build on the already built. In light of the visual thinking that comes with the craft, combined with the training
Desde los años setenta, el fundador de Future Systems dibujó arquitecturas adelantadas a su tiempo, confiando en la posibilidad de una tecnología orgánica; sólo al filo del siglo XXI pudo hacerlas realidad.
