Václavské náměstí 775/8: Adam Pharmacy
The Adam pharmacy at the lower end of Wenceslas Square was built between 1911 and 1913 by the firm of Matěj Blecha according to a design by Emil Králíček. The same team was also responsible...
Category: cubist / deco
The period from 1912 to 1914 saw architects capturing in architectural form the dynamics and fragmented forms of cubist painting. It was an exciting concept, and one that the war cruelly cut short. After the conflict, the austere geometry of buildings by Janák, Gočár and Chochol was softened by the addition of curved lines into a uniquely Czech style of deco: rondocubism.
Křižíkova 552/2
These offices of the State Railway Directorate were constructed between 1920 and 1922 by two architects whose names are often linked with train station architecture in the Czech lands: Vojtěch Krch and Gustav Kulhavý. The...
Spálená 82/4: Dům Diamant
Until February 1912, this corner building in Prague’s New Town was due to be reconstructed in a traditional historicist manner, more sympathetic to the baroque style of the Church of the Holy Trinity next door....
Na Příkopě 864/28: Czech National Bank
The vicinity of the Czech National Bank has been a trading quarter ever since the Middle Ages, when precious metals regularly arrived at the city’s east gate from the silver mines of Kutná Hora. Nearby...
Blanická 1971/19: Business Academy
The Business Academy of Prague, founded in the district of Karlín in 1909, was obliged to move to larger premises in Vinohrady in 1925. Its new home was a constructivist building by František Kavalír and...
Václavské náměstí 795/40: Šupich building
The completion in 1891 of the new museum at the top of Wenceslas Square was the crowning achievement of the Czech National Revival, a statement of nationhood that anticipated by thirty years the founding of...
Ořechovka Garden Suburb
These handsome semi-detached villas in Prague’s Střešovice district look just as though they were uprooted from suburban London, the new middle-class landscape for which the poet John Betjeman coined the name ‘Metroland’. So it’s no...
Chopinova 1564/8
The street in Prague’s Vinohrady district named after the composer Frédéric Chopin presents, as they say, a ‘smorgasbord’ of historical styles: one end is all gothic revival, turrets and bay windows, while the other exhibits...
Museum of Eastern Bohemia, Hradec Králové
In the late 1890s. the young artists of the Viennese secession sent shockwaves through Europe with their radical new approach to art and architecture. While not completely throwing out the neoclassical rulebook, their boldly geometric...
Slezská 2000/9: Municipal Court (former Tobacco Company)
Nowadays the municipal court of Prague (business division), this great ship of a building was constructed between 1926 and 1928 as the headquarters of the national Tobacco Company. As a young man, the architect, Alois...
