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CHYBÍK + KRIŠTOF Put a Public Running Track on Top of a 5,650-Seat Hockey Arena
A 5,650-seat arena has no obvious business standing at the edge of a medieval city centre, and Czech…
Machar Teichman architects Closes This House to the Street, Opens It to an Orchard
Prague-based studio Machar Teichman architects designed a house that behaves like two different buildings depending on which side…
BekArch Turns a Prague Basement’s Original Brick Vaulting into CannaRoomz Bar
At CannaRoomz, the original brick vaulting of a Prague basement is left to run the show, and every…
SOA architekti Wraps a Prague Restaurant in One Continuous Korean-Flag Wave
A single wave motif, loosely drawn from the Korean flag, runs uninterrupted from The Kimchi‘s facade through its…
A Ruined Czech Pigsty Becomes Lenka Milerová’s Concrete-and-Steel Summer Retreat
Lenka Milerová architektka‘s renovation of a derelict pigsty in Panoší Újezd began with a single request — one…
Facha architekti Built a New House Inside an Old Barn by Refusing to Change Either One
The Box in the Barn by Facha architekti does not disguise itself inside the old agricultural structure —…
Life Behind the Walls Proves That Exhibition Architecture Can Do What Images of North Korea Cannot
In Hall 13 of Prague‘s Holešovice Market — a 1,000-square-meter 19th-century industrial space — B² Architecturehas completed Life…
ORA Converts a Four-Generation Family Ruin in UNESCO Žatec into Apartments, a Private Retreat, and a Craft Beer Taproom
In the UNESCO-protected hop capital of Žatec, a deteriorated townhouse on a curved historic street has been reclaimed…
RDTH Architekti Uses Translucent Partitions and a Rotated Block to Challenge Traditional Apartment Layouts
Designed by Prague-based studio RDTH architekti, the No-Wall Apartment in Prague, Czech Republic, redefines contemporary residential living by…
Mimosa Architects Builds Charred-Timber Cabin Atop a Fire-Damaged Stone Plinth
Perched upon a resilient stone foundation on the banks of the Sázava River, Mimosa Architects has realized a…
No Architects Revives Abandoned Sudetenland Homestead With a “Radically White” Steel Skin
In the rugged heights of the Ore Mountains, No Architects has completed the resurrection of a long-abandoned homestead,…
Architektura Carves Jevany Villa Into a Czech Forest Using “Green and Red as Complementary Colors”
In the dense spruce forests of Jevany, Czech Republic, studio Architektura has unveiled the Jevany Villa, a residence…
Prokop Hartl Carves Out a Light-Filled Family Home in a 1930s Prague Corner Apartment
Prokop Hartl has transformed a late-1930s corner apartment in Prague into a fluid, light-filled family residence that balances…
Mimosa Architects Recovers the “Proportions and Craft” of a Bohemian Mountain Home
On a windswept slope above the village of Strážné, in the Krkonoše Mountains of the Czech Republic, Mimosa…
Papundekl Architekti Transforms a Historic Czech Inn Into a Vibrant Red-Hued Library
The transformation of historic heritage into contemporary civic infrastructure requires a delicate balance between preservation and bold intervention.…
B² Architecture Uses a “Green Core” to Open Up Mid-Century Prague Apartment
In the heart of Prague’s Holešovice district, a neighborhood defined by its industrial heritage and mid-century modernism, architectural…
Iva Hajkova Studio Uncovers Raw Concrete for Nautical-Themed Prague Apartment
The conceptual soul of the interior takes its cue from a paradox: the serenity of a vast skyline…
Studio Plyš Uses Backlit Fiberglass to Create “Theatrical” Nail Salon in Prague
The theatricality of the mundane is often overlooked in commercial interiors, yet in the heart of Prague, locally-based…
Oooox Uses Raw Concrete and Black Volumes to Define Unconventional Prague Apartment
The Hrebenky apartment in Prague, Czech Republic, is a three-storey residential intervention by the studio OOOOX that boldly…
Bohemian Forest Cottage Is “Reimagined With Reverence and Playfulness” by Studio Plyš
The Bohemian Forest has long been home to a particular strain of vacation-housing, and it is here, along…
Functionalist Finesse: An Architect’s Decade-Long Dialogue with Prague Modernism
The renovation of an architect’s own apartment is a unique crucible, often more demanding than any client brief.…