High in the Strážov Mountains, Uhrovec Castle comes back to life after years of abandonment. The renovation of what is considered one of Slovakia’s best-preserved castles sets new standards for restoring monuments in the region. The most recent miles
Like a Slavic House of Usher, as it were, an 18th-century mansion in a little village seemed condemned to a slow agony for lack of municipal resources to either restore or demolish it. Paradoxically, however, the impact of time has been capitalized o
The Czech firm RDTH Architekti —René Dlesk and Tamara Horová Kolaříková— has transformed an old mill and farm in Slovakia into a house, putting in wooden elements that refer to preexisting rural constructions. Beside a small stream in Trenčín stands
In Patrónka, an area in the western part of Bratislava, rises the new ESET campus, all of 55,000 square meters. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, Inflow, Pantograph, BuroHappold, and ARUP, the tech neighborhood replaces an old military hospital. Drawi
Inspired by the cabin in the woods that Henry David Thoreau built, which was his home for two years and where he wrote his famous book Walden (1854), the floating pavilion invites to meditate on the relationship between human beings and nature... [+]
