Nosticova 466/5: ‘U dvou hrdliček’
The house known as ‘The Two Turtledoves’ was built in 1620 for the mayor of Malá Strana, Baltazar Globic. In 1726, it was remodelled by the architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer for the royal carpenter Josef...
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Košická 229/23 & 71/21
A fine set of early twentieth-century apartments in Vršovice, near the border with Vinohrady. The style combines the architectural language of the neo-baroque with decorative elements of art nouveau.
Villa Tugendhat, Brno, Czech Republic
In 1928, the wealthy Jewish industrialist Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta commissioned the architect Ludwig Mies van de Rohe to design a family house on a plot of land overlooking the Czech Republic’s second...
Polská 1352/32
The complex patterns on the facade of this 1905 house by Jan Majer and Jan Bláha are suggestive of natural designs such as those of the spider’s web, one reason for including the creature itself....
Voroněžská 172/24
A fine example of neo-gothic balconies on the border of Vinohrady (Prague 2) and Vršovice (Prague 10)
Vozová 1567/8: U Severní Točny
To reach the North Pole became a worldwide obsession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The American Robert Peary’s arrival there on 6 April 1909 made international headlines, and could well be the...
Na Dionysce 1717/2
One of four friezes depicting ancient Olympic disciplines (discus, javelin and shot put) decorates the facade of this house on the corner of Zelená and Na Dionysce. Its companion pieces show a relay race and...
Svatoslavova 589/9
‘Ave Maria!’: bas-relief in a geometric art-nouveau frame adorns the facade of this townhouse in the southern suburb of Nusle.
Náměstí Generála Kutlvašra 545/3
A beautifully-proportioned art nouveau facade in Nusle, dating from 1911.
Týnská ulička 611/10
A house has stood on this spot in Týn Alley since at least the 13th century, when it was the home of doctor Jakub Lavín of Ottenfeld. From 1405 until the 1600s the building was...
