Franz Kafka Society Center / Steven Holl Architects + Marcela Steinbachová (Skupina)

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Text description provided by the architects. The basement of the small one-story building, formerly used for laundry and storage, now houses a space for exhibitions, lectures, and concerts, as well as it accommodates Franz Kafka's private library. On the first level of the building the Franz Kafka Society has located its offices. The previously dark and dismal spaces of the building are now washed in daylight coming through newly inserted windows and skylights that provide unexpected views to the towers of the Maisel Synagogue. Marcela Steinbachová (Skupina) and Steven Holl Architects have deliberately situated these windows off axis to the interiors. Inside the building new visual connections through openings and inspection holes give its small spaces depth and create visual connections.

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Cite: "Franz Kafka Society Center / Steven Holl Architects + Marcela Steinbachová (Skupina)" 17 Aug 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/31390/franz-kafka-society-center-steven-holl-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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