The southern slopes of the first large suburb in the capital city of Prague have always attracted people to posh residential living. However, the romanticizing delirium of typical construction with steep roofs, ostentatious stone soffits and superfluous brick cladding used to be a laughing stock for modernist architects in their time, who dreamed o...
Project name
Under the Top
Architecture firm
No Architects
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Studio Flusser
Principal architect
Jakub Filip Novák, Daniela Baráčková, Lenka Juračková
Collaborators
David Hromada, Joinery products: CZ interiéry
Built area
Built-up Area 173 m² Gross Floor Area 245 m² Usable Floor Area 175 m²
Landscape
Living in green
Material
Ceramic tiles, concrete screed, ash and oak floors. Joinery products – lacquered mdf, oak veneer and solid wood
Typology
Residential › House
The client's wish was to create a home that would provide a feeling of airiness and spaciousness and at the same time, they desired the possibility to separate the daily activities so the members of the household will not disturb each other.
Architecture firm
Formafatal
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Katarína Varsová
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Massif oak – dining table. Concrete – ceiling. Black Terazzo – sills. Oak parquet – floor. Ceramics – walls of bathrooms. Metal – frames, pipes for cables, handrails
Typology
Residential › Apartment
For the new Fragment Apartments we have come up with a unique and visually strong architecture, which is responsive to the context, both past and future. In addition to formal and functional aspects, a natural connection to the surrounding public space is what extends the building out, makes it more accessible and completes it visually and function...
Project name
Fragment Apartments
Architecture firm
QARTA Architektura
Location
Karlín, Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
David Wittassek, Jiří Řezák
Design team
Tomáš Němec, Lukáš Němeček, Michaela Fričová
Built area
Built-up Area 4 500 m² Gross Floor Area 18 050 m² Usable Floor Area 15 200 m² apartments 2 600 m² shops
Collaborators
David Černý, sculpture
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › Apartments
The innovative Czech company So Concrete, which is successfully developing the field of robotic construction technologies, designed and realized the project of the unique Výstaviště tram stop in Holešovice, Prague.
Project name
3D-Printed UHPC Tram Stop
Location
Výstaviště tram stop, Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Tomáš Hejzlar www.tomashejzlar.cz
Design team
So Concrete www.so-concrete.com
Collaborators
Placement and technology support: Prague City, www.praha.eu. Placement and energy supply connection: Prague Public Transit Company, www.dpp.cz. Independent structural analysis: Stráský, Hustý a partneři, www.shp.eu. Preparatory excavation work and asphalt surface: Premio Invest, www.premioinvest.cz. E-ink display supplier: TechnoCast, www.technocast.cz. Electrical installations: Elektroline, www.elektroline.cz.
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper
Material
UHPC C130. UHPCFRC. LED lighting
Typology
Transportation › Tram Station
During ten years, the author met architects from more than 140 countries, but there was not one among them who could answer the question of what is the psychology of architecture. So he decided to return to university, assemble a research team in Applied Psychology of Architecture, and define and establish the entire discipline for the architectura...
Title
Applied Psychology of Architecture: The secret world of architects
Category
Architecture, Psychology
Buy
https://lnkd.in/gucYYBkH
Size
5.5 x 0.53 x 8.5 inches
Renovation of an early 1900’s apartment in a tenement house. We tailored this renovation of an apartment from the turn of the 19th century in Prague’s Bubeneč district to young clients with two, perhaps three little creatures. The clients, together with the space and place as such, were the primary source of inspiration – their requirements, lifest...
Project name
E07 Apartment
Architecture firm
Malfinio
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Martina Homolková
Collaborators
Technical supervisor of the investor: Petr Klapka
Design year
10/2020 – 04/2021
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential/ Appartment
Poetizer's offices blend minimalist interiors with the wild jungle that thrives in the open-air greenhouse at the heart of this unique poetry start-up based in Prague, Czech Republic. The unique space in the center of Prague thus provides its employees with an inspiring background for everyday work and a creative zone that allows them to get away f...
Project name
Poetizer Offices
Architecture firm
Tomáš Císař, Johana Sedláčková Vamberská
Location
Národní 39, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Tomáš Císař, Johana Sedláčková Vamberská
Collaborators
Florist: Lucie Pluhařová. Contractor: Design&Build.
Interior design
Tomáš Císař, Johana Sedláčková Vamberská
Material
Greenhouse - aluminum structure, acacia timber floor tiles. Tiles - ceramic tiles with terrazzo texture. Kitchen - countertop - bronze metal sheet. Kitchen - black matte TFL. Walls - stucco, Mistral Universal painting. Carpets - dark grey, knotted.
Typology
Office - Building
Prague has announced the winner of the international architectural competition for the design of the Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which is the team of the Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), led by Bjarke Ingels and Brian Yang.
Project name
Vltava Philharmonic Hall
Architecture firm
Bjarke Ingels Group
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Bjarke Ingels and Brian Yang
Collaborators
AED PROJECT – Aleš Marek, Šárka Schneiderová; John Henley, Karel Košek, Tomáš Hrádek; NAGATA ACOUSTICS – Marc Quiquerez, Neza Kravanja; THEATRE PROJECTS – Findlay Ross, Mark Stroomer; BURO HAPPOLD – George Keliris, Kostis Lysikatos, Michael Keverne; SYSTEMATICA – Tiffanie Yamashita; FRONT – Marc Simmons, Jill Fredrickson
Visualization
Mozses, Bjarke Ingels Group
Client
Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague) & The City of Prague
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Philharmonic Hall
