Czech-Republic-based firm Zavoral Architekt (ZA) has unveiled its proposal for Palach Museum, a museum and memorial to Jan Palach in Vsetaty, Czech Republic.
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ZA Unveils Proposal for Memorial Museum to Czech Martyr
https://www.archdaily.com/792610/za-unveils-proposal-for-memorial-museum-to-czech-martyrSabrina Santos
PLUKK Designs Town Hall and Community Center On Sloping Site in Czech Republic
Czech firm PLUKK has released designs for a community center and town hall in the city of Brno-Kohoutovice, Czech Republic. Located in the historic downtown, the project takes advantage of a sloping site to create two buildings of differing architectural language, connected together with active public space to create one multifunctional town center.
https://www.archdaily.com/791852/plukk-designs-town-hall-and-community-center-from-sloping-site-in-czech-republicPatrick Lynch
BLAU Receives Fourth Place in Czech Republic Urban Planning Competition
Bernabe Labanc Architecture Urbanism (BLAU) has received fourth place out of 58 entries in the international urban planning competition for The Future of Brno-Center, in Brno, Czech Republic.
The competition sought out designs to integrate a transport hub into the cityscape of Brno, as well as integrate a design for the undeveloped southern area of the city.
https://www.archdaily.com/791155/blau-receives-fourth-place-in-czech-republic-urban-planning-competitionSabrina Santos
Will Zaha Hadid Architects' Latest Design Be the Right Fit for Prague?
In a city as renowned for its historic buildings as Prague, urban change can often be hard to come by – which is why the announcement earlier this month that Zaha Hadid Architects will be designing a large complex of buildings around a railway station close to the city's historic center was big news. But is this the design that Prague needs? In this interview, originally published in Czech by Česká televize, Michaela Polakova speaks to Martin Barry, the Chairman of Prague-based NGO reSITE, for his analysis of how the design will impact the city's future.
Michaela Polakova: What is your opinion on the new Zaha Hadid Architects building in Prague?
Martin Barry: To me, it seems is too early to comment on the aesthetics of the buildings. We should focus on how the collection of buildings enhances the urban character of the city, and how they can improve the urban condition around the buildings. The city is a collection of buildings; the spaces between are what influence people’s lives; not so much the materials and forms of the architecture. That being said, this is a major development site and relatively large footprint of buildings from ZHA adjacent to the historic center of the city. So, we should pay close attention to how the designs develop. At present, it is clear that it is early and they need work.
https://www.archdaily.com/787910/will-zaha-hadid-architects-latest-design-be-the-right-fit-for-pragueMichaela Polakova
Zaha Hadid Architects Will Develop Brownfield Site Adjacent to Prague's Railway Station
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed plans to design and redevelop more than 22,000 square meters of brownfield land in Prague, in a 90,000 square meter development adjacent to the city’s Masaryk Railway Station. ZHA was selected by project partner Penta, an investment company active in ten markets across Europe, as the winner of a 2014 competition for the site. Devising a new central business district, the ZHA plan seeks to integrate with existing means of transit, including suburban and domestic rail services, a bus terminal, Line B of the city’s metro, and a future airport rail link to Vaclav Havel International Airport. Approximately one kilometer from Prague’s central square, the design seeks to create a balance between the horizontality of the railway lines and the verticality and publicness of the Old Town.
https://www.archdaily.com/786940/zaha-hadid-architects-will-develop-brownfield-site-adjacent-to-pragues-railway-stationVladimir Gintoff
Exhibition: A Look at the History and Restoration of Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat
Villa Tugendhat (1928–30) in the Czech Republic is the most well-preserved example of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s early functionalism. It is regarded as one of the world’s most important manifestations of villa architecture and has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The building also likely inspired the Norwegian architect Arne Korsmo’s work on Villa Stenersen (1937–39).
https://www.archdaily.com/781519/exhibition-a-look-at-the-history-and-restoration-of-mies-van-der-rohes-villa-tugendhatRene Submissions
Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Model of 100 Circles Explores the Diversity of Repetition
Chilean art and architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s “Finite Format” exhibition is currently on display at one of the most important cultural sites in the Czech Republic: The House of Art of Ceske Budějovice. Composed of more than 480 paintings (Finite Format) and six ink drawings (Infinite Motive), the installation aims to demonstrate the firm’s “underlying method to understand not only the artistic qualities in a work of architecture but also the architectonic attributes of a work of art,” according to the architects.
In parallel, Pezo von Ellrichshausen also carried out a workshop with 14 architecture students from the Technical University of Liberec to conceptualize and construct a twelve-square-meter scale model for the "Infinite Motive" installation. Using the circle as the basic element, the architects reflect on how “architectonic intentions may be diluted by means of the repetition of a single figure with a diverse range of dimensions.”
https://www.archdaily.com/777191/pezo-von-ellrichshausen-constructs-a-model-made-up-of-100-circles-to-explore-the-diversity-of-repetitionNicolás Valencia
Semi-Permanent Wood Nest Balances Unaided in Czech Republic Treetop
Over the course of two days, architect Jan Tyrpekl created The Nest, an experimental structure built without any investors, sponsors, assignment, or project documentation in Strančice, in the Czech Republic. Made of about $120 USD worth of Osier Willow wood, The Nest perches in a park in the designer’s hometown, interlaced between tree branches, so as not to damage or affect the tree.
https://www.archdaily.com/776218/semi-permanent-wood-nest-balances-unaided-in-czech-republic-treetopSabrina Santos
UK and Wolfgang Buttress Win "Best Pavilion" at Milan Expo 2015
As the Milan Expo 2015 comes to a close, the winners of its best pavilions are being revealed. Wolfgang Buttress' UK Pavilion has taken top honors being named the exhibition's "Best Pavilion for Architecture & Landscape." A crowd favorite, the pavilion caught the attention of the world with it's mesmerizing (and photogenic) "beehive" made of 169,300 individual aluminium components that allowed visitors to experience the life of a bee.
https://www.archdaily.com/776336/uk-and-wolfgang-buttress-win-best-pavilion-at-milan-expo-2015Karissa Rosenfield
The Czech Centre London Presents "Czech Houses"
Focused on family housing, the highlight of contemporary Czech architecture, the exhibition presents 33 exceptional designs by 33 architectural studios offering an insight into contemporary Czech architecture and urbanism. Showing a wide range of approaches to individual housing needs including large and small houses; new projects and renovations; houses in the countryside, in dense urban centres and in suburbia; made of concrete, wood, bricks or steel; in modern, abstract, or traditional styles distinctive, subtle or introverted, the exhibition demonstrates the continuous increase in the quality of Czech architecture since the fall of Communism in 1989, capturing the developments in architecture within the context of significant political and social change.
https://www.archdaily.com/771401/czech-housesRene Submissions
House Under the Castle / MODULORA
https://www.archdaily.com/771009/house-unter-the-castle-moduloraDaniel Sánchez
The Life Of Dalibor Vesely: Teacher, Philosopher, Acclaimed Academic
Dalibor Vesely, a celebrated architectural historian, philosopher and teacher, died this week in London aged 79. Over the course of his teaching career, which spanned five decades, he tutored a number of the world’s leading architects and thinkers from Daniel Libeskind, Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Robin Evans, to Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow.
Vesely was born in Prague in 1934, five years before the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Following World War II, he studied engineering, architecture, art history and philosophy in Prague, Munich, Paris and Heidelberg. He was awarded his doctorate from Charles University (Prague) having been taught and supervised by Josef Havlicek, Karel Honzik, and Jaroslav Fragner. Although later he would be tutored by James Stirling, it was the philosopher of phenomenology Jan Patočka who, in his own words, “contributed more than anyone else to [his] overall intellectual orientation and to the articulation of some of the critical topics” explored in his seminal book, Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation, published in 2004.
https://www.archdaily.com/615659/dalibor-vesely-obituaryJames Taylor-Foster
ModulARCH Festival of Modular Architecture
Organized by Czech collective Arch for People, ModulARCH is a new festival of modular architecture to be held in Brno, Czech Republic this April. The festival will explore all aspects of modular architecture from the ecological to the economic, and discuss the role of the typology within the contemporary city. Learn more about the three day conference after the break.
https://www.archdaily.com/614324/modularch-festival-of-modular-architecturePatricia Arcilla
Jiřičná, Meier And Pawson Appointed To Design Residential Development Near Prague
Three practices have been appointed to the design team for Oaks Prague, a new rural residential development located in the commune of Popivičky, close to the city of Prague. John Pawson, Richard Meier + Partners and Eva Jiřičná with AI-Design have drawn up design proposals for key buildings for the scheme, which is managed by the Czech development company Arendon. In November last year, ten practices were shortlisted in a competition to design housing schemes for the €400 million, 220-home "residential and lifestyle development" in Popivičky.
The entire development, which has previously been master-planned by EDSA assisted by Chapman Taylor and John Thompson & Partners, "responds to the form, layout and vernacular of the surrounding Czech villages."
https://www.archdaily.com/607905/jiricna-meier-and-pawson-appointed-to-design-residential-development-near-pragueJames Taylor-Foster
Ten Practices Selected to Design €400 Million "Oaks Prague" Scheme
The Czech Republic-based Arendon Development Company has selected seven British practices and three Czech practices to work together on Oaks Prague, a new €400 million, 220-home "residential and lifestyle development" 20 kilometres South-East of Prague within the commune of Popivičky.
Selected through a competition organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants, the ten practices will join the team of Edward Durell Stone Jr and Associates, who masterplanned the development to include a golf club, hotel and spa at its centre, and John Thompson & Partners, who developed a pattern book and style guide for Oaks Prague.
Read on after the break for the full list of selected architects
https://www.archdaily.com/568363/ten-practices-selected-to-design-eu400-million-oaks-prague-schemeRory Stott
Bogle Architects Win “Architectural Project of the Year” for Laser Research Campus
Bogle Architects has won the 2014 Czech Architect Week "Architectural Project of the Year” award for their ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure) Beamlines project in Prague, Czech Republic. The campus, designed as four separate structures connected within a landscaped setting, will be the first laser research and technology facility to involve scientists from the global research community for high-powered laser experimentation.
https://www.archdaily.com/565355/bogle-architects-win-building-of-the-year-award-for-laser-research-campusKarissa Rosenfield
AIR House / Czech Technical University
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Architects: Czech Technical University
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https://www.archdaily.com/440093/solar-decathlon-2013-czech-technical-university-wins-architecture-contest-places-third-overallKarissa Rosenfield