Living, housing and construction magazine

New building of CTU

The new building of the Czech Technical University (CTU) filled the last empty plot of the university campus designed in the regulatory plan by professor Engel in 1924. Our goal was in this place to construct a building that would be sensible, a bit modest in a way that would lead the students toward humbleness; a... Read more>>

Tenement house with a gym

Urbanism The new building's mass conforms to the regulatory logics introduced in relation to development projects in the 1930s and 40. While completing the unfinished front street line to Soukenická street the new building tries to accentuate its corner position by jutting the bay... Read more>>

Japanese architecture

Nowadays, Japanese contemporary architecture presents a quality and a diversity which offer a considerable interest. Although this architecture is from a very advanced society in the capitalist economy and in globalization, it keeps its own specificities that makes it stand out from... Read more>>

Renaissance Architecture

The cultural revolution of the Renaissance began in Italy in the city of Florence in the early 15th. It substituted itself to Gothic architecture to return to the Antique architecture at the apogee of all arts.The Renaissance artists were versatile, they searched of the absolute... Read more>>

New City Center, Bratislava, Čulenova

The scheme is based on a dynamic field strategy which organizes the new city centre program along a gradient of circular and elliptical patterns. A fluid field emerges from the underlying matrix in a series of larger tower extrusions towards the sites perimeter and intermediate scale... Read more>>

Family house, Záběhlice, Prague

The new house is intentionally drawing and dissolving into the landscape by means of sinking below the ground and by division into several smaller volumes significantly dividing the lower and upper levels. Natural materials, stucco and revetments of the of the basement floor, together... Read more>>

Granary renovation, Uherský Brod

One-hundred-fifty-years old walls have received new face, programme and life. Now, the granary's arrangement remains a temple. A temple of advertising. The entrance space with a reception area looks like a church vestibule. Exposed original bricks on the interior walls, as well as the... Read more>>

New Building of the Czech Technical University, Dejvice, Prague

The new building of the Czech Technical University is located on the last free plot of the university campus, which was designed in Antonín Engel's settlement plan in 1924. The objective was to build a sensible, rather lean, simple and maybe ordinary building to lead students to... Read more>>

Heritage Home Tour and fundraiser

This Saturday brings the Heritage Home Tour, offered by the Architectural Heritage Center. Proceeds will benefit the Bosco-Milligan Foundation, the AHC's parent organization. The six homes on this new tour cover a century of residential construction in Portland and represent a... Read more>>

Matthew Ginn's Portland Public Schools photo tour: Roosevelt and Wilson

This summer, local architecture and construction photographer Matthew Ginn of Homestead Images has taken on a project to photograph Portland's public schools. His first two schools visited are Roosevelt High and Wilson High. I'd like to share a few of his shots interspersed with info... Read more>>

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