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Václav Havel Library, Prague 1

Apart from historically valuable building and craft details, the building is especially remarkable by its stylistic diversity, which is typical for Prague's architecture. When designing an adaptation of a building to its new use as a cultural and educational institution - the Václav Havel Library - as well as... Read more>>

Town Library in Soběslav

Preservation of gothic castle The main design criterion for reconstruction and extension of the castle in consideration of the chosen functional purpose is the author's endeavour to connect the original premises with the new structures. The temporary static safety measures in the form... 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>>

California Academy Of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences by architects Renzo Piano Building Workshop  opened last week in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The museum, which contains an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and research and educational facilities, features a ‘green’ roof and... Read more>>

architecture + conservation

Culloden Battlefield Visitor's Centre, Scotland designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects.  Read more>>

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