The obstacle -- just 52m2 of living space to work with. The solution -- a modern, creative design idea that makes the most of every inch! This smart, small apartment design by Czech architecture firm A1 Architects sits on the second storey of a 19th-century building. With little changes to layout, the architects saved most of their budget for this efficient small-space essential -- built-in furniture. The hallway also includes the bathroom -- an interesting layout option -- while the kitchen opens onto the living room, with a view into the bedroom. A small but sweet study enjoys privacy by means of a sliding paper wall. Adding punch to this creative apartment, the architects added bold splashes of color to make a big style statement. A1 Architects.....www.trendir.com
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Document about renowned czech architect Jan Kaplický.
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www.vernissage.tv | "Architecture is undergoing a crisis. Our buildings no longer satisfy people. It is necessary to start to create differently in place of design and aesthetics to take inspiration from the deeper laws of nature." This quote by architect Martin Rajniš illustrates the basic concept of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition -- La Biennale di Venezia in Venice / Italy. More info at VernissageTV Art TV: vernissage.tv
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This video gives insight into the experiences and work done by PSU Landscape Architecture Graduate Students while working in the Czech Republic. Footage is from Decin, Turnov , and the Cesky Raj Region. Video was created by J. Fleckenstein-Hendrickson
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Competition Project for the Czech National Library in Prague, 2006 by CK-Architecture, Christoph Kapeller. The animation shows the library without context. More info at: www.ck-architecture.com
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Friday 2 July, 7 pm Wren Room, Royal Institute of British Architects 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD Tickets: www.architecture.com or 020 7307 3699 The international premiere of a documentary dedicated to the late Czech architect Jan Kaplický, co-founder of London based internationally acclaimed practice Future Systems followed by a debate chaired by Deyan Sudjic, with Eva Jiřičná and other guests. The film featuring Brian Clarke, Eva Jiřičná, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Václav Havel and the team Future Systems tells the story of Kaplický's last grand design. The project for the National Library in Prague called the Eye over Prague is radical, exciting and far enough ahead of its time to provoke a fair degree of controversy. For Kaplický, a Czech-born émigré, it also represents a triumphant return to his homeland, a vindication of his uncompromisingly forward-looking philosophy and, eventually, a tragically poetic ending to his remarkable career. After winning the international competition chaired by Zaha Hadid, the popular and much supported design met opposition from the Czech government and the local administration and the fierce battle began. (Olga Spátová, Czech Republic, 2010, 90'). A following debate, chaired by Deyan Sudjic with Eva Jiřičná and other guests will focus not only on Jan Kaplicky's work, but also on the process and struggles of architects to have their visionary and bold designs approved and built. Film website: www.okonadprahou.cz Presented by the ...
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Take a tour of Church of St. John of Nepomuk in Zelena Hora in Zelena Hora, Czech Republic - part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats. Standing as a symbolic pilgrimage site in Zelena Hora, Czech Republic is the Church of St. John of Nepomuk. The building was created by a prominent Czech architect and designer who used both Baroque and Gothic styles in its construction. Saint John is known for being a Christian martyr, and gained his acclaim when his decayed remains left only his tongue preserved. The Church of St. John of Nepomuk was built shortly thereafter when Saint John was sanctified by the Catholic Church. Santini was the one who decided to construct the church using symbols of the tongue and the numbers 5 and 3 due to Saint John's death at age 53. The church is littered with symbolic images, both in its architecture and decor, and is frequented by pilgrims.
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Clips from documentary of modern architectural masterpiece built in 1930 in Czechoslovakia by German architect Mies van der Rohe for a Jewish family that had to flee in 1938. Interviews with the Tugendhat daughter and Mies' grandson about this unique house now owned by the government in Brno, Czech Republic.
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This video introduces a beauties of the Czech Republic, its architecture and nature, Prague and other cities, castles spread throghout the country, all colored by a music of Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak.
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The Czech Republic's picturesque capital city of Prague showcases hundreds of years of European history through its well-preserved architecture. The Czech Republic also serves as a bellwether for Europe's demographic future. Racial diversity is spreading across the continent from immigrant hubs in Western Europe and arriving in the land of the Czechs.
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jorgefontan.com This is a conceptual project for a cultural center The Franz Kafka Cultural Centrum in Prague, Czech Republic. The building is a work of kinetic architecture a cube that opens expands and morphs according to the building use. The moving building is potentially different every time someone visits.
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Preview of Markbrinsden's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Learn more about these videos: www.travelpod.com
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Josef Svoboda (May 10, 1920 in Čáslav - April 8, 2002 in Prague) was a Czech artist and scenic designer. Svoboda was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia (today the Czech Republic). He began his training as an architect at the Central School of Housing in Prague. At the end of World War II he became interested in theatre and design. He began to study scenography at the Prague Conservatory and architecture at the Academy of Applied Arts. Svoboda became the principal designer at the Czech National Theatre in 1948 and held that position for more than 30 years. His multimedia installations Laterna Magika and Polyekran with director Alfréd Radok allowed him to be internationally known in 1958. These productions introduced the combination of live actors and filmed projections. Svoboda is also responsible for introducing modern technologies and materials such as plastics, hydraulics and lasers into his designs. In 1967 Svoboda created one of is best known special effects, a three-dimensional pillar of light. This was created by the use of an aerosol mixture which revealed low-voltage luminaries. Josef Svoboda considered himself a scenographer rather than a designer; he chose to show a more holistic, architectural, non-naturalistic approach to design. His 700 plus designs include Insect Comedy (Czech National Theatre, 1946); Rusalka (Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1958); Carmen (Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1972); The Firebird (Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, 1972); I Vespri ...
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The pilgrimage church of the Birth of the Virgin at Křtiny, nestling in a lovely wooded valley near Brno, is a typical example of Czech Baroque planning. The years 1712-1750 saw the construction of the massive cross-shaped central edifice with its monumental dome and facade surmounted by a tower for which the genial Baroque architect, Giovani B. Santini, supplied the plans. The focus of the church was a spectacular 13th century statue of the benevolent Virgin, the object of the pilgrims´ worship. All this compilation of great baroque monumental architecture with mostly too decorative items contrasts with the naivity and sincere faith of simple poor people doing their pilgrimage manytimes each year more than 400 years, covering the walls of the surrounding corridor by naive folcloric portraits of Mary The Virgin decorated with dryied roses and tables with thanksgivings for treating diseases and preserving against wars.. Božena Šebetovská, Moravian folcloric female singer, comes from south Moravia, the region nearby Brno where folocloric song in Czechia has the most important tradition; she never studied so her voice is completely natural, emotive, full of passion and special Slavonic melancholy...these frolcloric songs are very popular till nowadays and many Czech people sing them together celebrating mariage, pilgrimage or simply for enjoying theirselves...
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Green Architecture - Český Krumlov - Czech Republic
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A part of my Architectural trip to Europe in March 16-29. We went to Prague, Czech from March 17-18. The following video is the astronomical clock show, the time was 8 pm sharp, not much to see though, but the clock itself looks pretty cool and a very strategic place for a meeting point.
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Cool buildings, amazing skylines, beautiful bridges, and other architectural feats. Here are the places and the order in which they appear: 1. Greek arches 2. Medieval castle 3. Allegheny County Courthouse 4. Monastery of St. Nil 5. Convento do Carmo ruins in Lisbon 6. Broadway Tower Cotswolds 7. Big Ben at night 8. Notre Dame de Paris 9. Notre-Dame de Montreal Basilica 10. Tower Bridge, Sacramento, CA 11. Neuschwanstein Castle 12. Cape Reinga Lighthouse, New Zealand 13. Blue Mosque at night 14. Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque at sunset 15. Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque 16. St. Vitus Cathedral 17. Louvre Pyramid, Paris 18. London Eye at twilight 19. Goslar Imperial Palace 20. Beijing bridge under fog 21. Mont Saint-Michel, France 22. Milau Viaduct, France 23. Fort-Jefferson Dry-Tortugas 24. Hallgrímskirkja, Iceland 25. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral at dusk 26. Louvre Staircase 27. Brooklyn Bridge 28. San Diego Temple 29. Brisbane by night 30. Blue Bridge underside 31. Tomorrow Square 32. Jin Mao Building Inside 33. Crystal Cathedral 34. Moon over San Diego 35. Slide Bridge 36. USAFA Chapel 37. Ciudad de las Ciencias noche 38. European Parliament 39. Japanese Indoor Beach 40. Chicago Skyline 41. Petronas Twin Towers 42. Petronas Twin Towers tops 43. Golden Gate Bridge by night 44. Pudong by night 45. Sugarloaf Mountain, Brazil 46. Shanghai at night 47. Roads and Traffic 48. San Francisco International Airport at night 49 ...
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dingemansarchitectuur.nl The design consists out of two parts, an High-Tech core prefabricated in a shipping container and a Low-Tech construction of wood and straw build on location. The seperation between High-Tech and Low-Tech has many advantages: -The building of the most labour and time intensive part is done near by home. -The bathroom, toilet and kitchen can be used while building the low-tech part. -Not the complications and delays due a large amount of different (sub)contractors A shipping container in your house is a bit extreme maybe, but the High-Tech/Low-Tech can be used in a way that it isn't visible and can result in a more common design. The container is chosen to make a statement and for easy transportation. The doors of the container can change the open floorplan according to the seasons or privacy reasons. MSc. Jeroen Dingemans Architect www.arcz.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Tsjechie bouw ik een huis. Het huis heeft een duidelijke High-Tech en Low-Tech scheiding. HIGH-TECH In Nederland heb ik in een 10ft zeecontainer een keuken, badkamer, toilet en technische ruimte ingebouwd. De container is per vrachtwagen naar de locatie in Tsjechie gebracht en hier op de fundering gezet en aangesloten op de nutsvoorzieningen. Tijdens de ruwbouwfase kan er dus al gebruik worden gemaakt van de voorzieningen. LOW TECH Het huis wordt als het ware om de container heen gebouwd en bevat ...
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Český Krumlov is a small city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, best known for the fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Český Krumlov Castle. Old Český Krumlov is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Construction of the town and castle began in the late 13th century at a ford in the Vltava River, which was important in trade routes in Bohemia. Most of the architecture of the old town and castle dates from the 14th through 17th centuries; the town's structures are mostly in Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque styles. The core of the old town is within a horseshoe bend of the river, with the old Latrán neighborhood and castle on the other side of the Vltava. During the interwar era it was part of Czechoslovakia. Between 1938 and 1945 it was annexed by Nazi Germany as part of the so-called Sudetenland. The town's German-speaking population was expelled after liberation by the American Army during World War II and it was restored to Czechoslovakia. During the Communist era of Czechoslovakia, Krumlov fell into disrepair, but since the Velvet Revolution of 1989 much of the town's former beauty has been restored, and it is now a major holiday destination popular with tourists from Germany, Austria, and beyond. In August, 2002, the town suffered from damage in the great flood of the Vltava River.
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The Spanish Synagogue, or Španělská Synagoga in Czech, has to be one of the most beautiful synagogues in the world as the architecture and decoration is simply breathtaking. It was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer ("the Old Shul") and is designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. The synagogue has a regular square plan with a large dome surmounting the central space. On three sides there are galleries on metal structures, which fully open onto the nave. The remarkable interior decoration features a low stucco arabesque of stylized Islamic motifs which are also applied to the walls, doors and gallery balustrades. The interior, together with the stained glass windows, were designed by architects A. Baum and B. Munzberg and completed in 1893. František Škroup, the composer of the Czech national anthem, served as organist here in 1836-45. By reopening the Spanish Synagogue - closed for over 20 years - on the 130th anniversary of its establishment, the Jewish Museum in Prague has completed one of its most ambitious projects to date. Filmed using the Sony HDR-HC9 HDV1080i High Definition Handycam.
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