It has always been our dream to build our own house on a vacant plot of land in a town or city. After three years searching hopelessly for vacant plots in and around Benešov we came across a ‘for sale’ sign behind the window of a terraced house just five minutes from the main square and in one of the few neighbourhoods of Benešov that was left largely unscathed by the urbanistic ravages of the communist era. A small house for demolition, a stone cellar with a brick vault and a small garden which, together with the neighbouring gardens, gave the illusion of a large orchard. What more could we have wished for?
Černá Voda, a small mountain lodge, is situated next to the “old” ski run near the Pomezní Boudy border checkpoint in the Krkonoše mountains.
The original lower ski-lift station was replaced with a new wooden structure on the confluence of Kolben and Černá Voda streams, the latter of which the chalet is named after. The owner’s wish was to have a small structure to serve as a lodge for short-term guests of the owner of the nearby Tereza mountain chalet.
The apartment is located in one of the stately residential buildings in the neighborhood of Negrelli´s viaduct in Karlín. Thanks to its location on the top floor of here can get a good view of the sky, hovering over the Karlin yards. Beautiful but harrowing atmosphere of this neighborhood is also imprinted into the interior, which is like “rental apartment” used throughout the year, by foreign visitors of the Golden City. We preserved the original, time-tested tiles, worn plank floors and exposed layers of old, wildly colorful painted rooms. Two originally claustrophobic chambers were, due to demolition of wall, turned into a generous space with enough room to breathe. Directly for the interior we have designed and had to make pieces of furniture from the kitchen through the bathroom to the bed with a canopy. The only thing left to say is: Guest to the house, God to the house!
Trautenberk Microbrewery is situated in the premises of the renovated Tippelt Lodge, later known as Hotel Družba. The building is located in the north-eastern part of the village Horní Malá Úpa, right next to the road leading to the border with Poland. The view from the building is onto Pomezní Hřeben and Malá Úpa river valley, and, next to the road, the ski runs in the nearby ski resort.
Josper Showroom Sabores combines two concepts within the interior – a shop with Spanish delicacies and a showroom of Spanish grills Josper.
The Josper grills work on the principle of burning special natural charcoal, which was the architect’s inspiration.
The author immersed an original cooling display cabinet, which dominates the space of Spanish delicacies, into wooden cladding with an effect of charred planks.
The late works of Siegfried Morkowitz are best represented by his poem Sentence recently published in the B O D Y Magazine. The melancholy fills the space while the poem is read. For us it worked better than any Client specification.
They say that every cloud has a silver lining. So a fire of the apartment may be a good reason for a its fundamental reconstruction. From the ashes of the original split and non-lighted disposition rose like a Phoenix new floorplan. It responds to the needs of five-member family of artists. Through the deployment of skylights in the walls daylight can reach all rooms of the apartment. The entrance hall has ample storage space and connects living spaces with entrance, toilet and bathroom. The main focus of the apartment is dining room with kitchen. At the big table takes place a joint meeting with the grandparents, friends and colleagues. Dining room is connected with living room by tetrahedral library with reading corner. This piece of furniture serves not only to store reading materials, but also as a family bulletin board or exhibition space for souvenirs. Living room with a desk separates the master bedroom from bedroom for their two younger kids. The third and oldest descendant has his own personal cabin.
A Czech online platform for interior design called insidecor has introduced a unique project in Prague. The company invited five different ateliers and designers to design five different spaces in a historical building. SQUAT iD23 is situated on the capital’s most luxurious street, Pařížská.
Visitors can occupy the spaces for a while, and that is also the reason why insidecor chose the name “SQUAT”. The flats were designed by well-known Czech architects as well as upcoming young talents. The ateliers cooperated with both high-quality Czech and foreign furniture and accessories suppliers, who are all partners of insidecor.
Original condition before reconstruction – the original condition of the flat was a little confusing and at first did not look like it needed major reconstruction, only minor modifications. After the original owner moved out, the shortcomings of the original reconstruction work only done “to the eye”, became visible. Different types of flooring materials painted a single color (even over the tiles in the bathroom). The crookedness of floors, leaking windows etc. The standard of the original reconstruction was set very low from today’s point of view.
From the pile of ashes and rubble. An original conversion of a former boiler house into a multi-functional leaseable area for cultural, corporate and social events, with an ambition to become the heart of a future arts & culture district existing in a symbiotic relationship with traditional crafts and technological innovation and preserving, in a unique way, the industrial phase of the city’s development which has significantly influenced the historical context of the place in question. It is another important project contributing to the gradual regeneration of the former large industrial estate of ŠROUBÁRNA (Screw Factory) in Libčice nad Vltavou near Prague which provided people with jobs and a place to live and became a bearer of near 150-year tradition of know-how and craftsmanship in the field of screw and wire production. The brownfield, which currently operates at a fraction of its former capacity, is thus being revived with a plan to preserve and develop the tradition of crafts and manufacturing. The boiler house, together with the already iconic industrial gem of Uhelný Mlýn (the Coal-Grinding Mill), are the beginning of the new UM Valley located in a meander of the Vltava river. It represents a precedent for many other still dilapidated sites.
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