Layout – The attic flat of 217 square metres underwent a total change of its layout. The main intervention consisted in an opening of the back part of the flat during which six chimneys had been deliberately revealed to become a dominant feature of this flat. The central area is a dining room, a living room with a “relax zone” and a kitchen with a cooking island. Moreover, the flat has a terrace, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and two separate toilets. Thanks to a raised study room, the view to the Old Town and the Prague Castle is not obstructed.
Concept / Colours / Materials – The colour design of the flat works with neutral tones of various intensity, starting from white on the walls via a spectrum of grey on the furniture and fabrics to black which optically works well with the suspended ceiling in the hallway. A counterpoint is brass metallic elements used, for example, in the kitchen and on the chimneys. An alternative element of the structure is oak wood. We developed its character in the dining zone, by means of a mosaic. In bathrooms we used ceramic tiles imitating stone. Door linings in the entire flat are profiled, as it is typical of interior doors in rather old Prague flats.
Layout – Thanks to the client’s changes, we have altered the original layout design to an open space without many corridors. All the facilities of the flat have been situated into the middle. A kitchen is adjacent to that unit, becoming thus the heart of the living room. We opened bathrooms next to each bedroom more.
Concept / Colours / Materials – We opted for minimalist colours and the whole concept is minimalist, too. The original plan to preserve the uncovered concrete bearing walls in the interior unfortunately failed due to the developer when they plastered them all by mistake. Therefore, we had to set about skim coating to achieve the desired effect. In terms of materials, we accented the central unit of the flat with a black skim coat Betonepox and in the same way we dealt with the surface of the kitchen cabinets which border directly on the central unit. To highlight it more, we put a built-in LED strip of indirect lightening into the ceiling.
Layout – This was a reconstruction of a typical, rather old Prague building. We were asked to create a sample flat. Thanks to the initial stage of the reconstruction, we had a possibility to change the layout completely and, therefore, to design a practical flat of 60 square metres. The flat is divided into several zones. The first zone is an entrance hall which is entered through the main door from the courtyard balcony. A tailor-made, built-in high cabinet is designed to be in the hall in the future and will contain a washing machine and a dryer, as well as storage space and a shoe rack. For practical reasons, we maintained the separation of the bathroom and the toilet. The next zone is entered through a glass door above which there is a glazed opening allowing natural daily light to diffuse onwards. Here we see a kitchen and a dining corner, incl. an extraordinary storage space. The third zone is a spacious living room with a reading corner. An added value of this interior consists in a dais where the forth zone is available, i.e. a bedroom, built-in wardrobes and a cosmetic corner.
The historical First Municipal Brewery in Prague-Holešovice – a place where beer fermented and beer buckets were stored gave stimulus to an original design of an open, and, at the same time, introspective space for creative and modern housing in an industrial spirit. The converted building accommodates a total of forty loft-type flats; half of them are real industrial lofts in original storage cubicles, six were built during the conversion of the building’s front section and fourteen are in the new addition towards the square.
The first part of the long-awaited revitalization of the Prague riverfront area called Náplavka is coming to completion, making it one of the most attractive public embankments in Europe.
In autumn 2019, nineteen vaults on the Rašín and Hořejší Embankments will be put into use. Six will feature the biggest elliptical pivoting windows in the world, connecting the inner spaces with the riverfront area in a unique way, through the diagonal rotation of the five-meter wide glazed “lenses”. The other spaces will have distinct steel sculptural entrances.
Exactly a year since the solemn tapping of the building stone, a new ice stadium was officially opened in Prague today. Over the past twelve months, private investors have managed to build up-to-date facilities for skaters on two ice surfaces in Strašnice, Prague, in Přetlucká street. The project is newly named ŠKODA ICERINK and is intended primarily for the general public, but also for the training of figure skating and ice hockey youth. A full-fledged winter stadium grew up in Prague for the first time in fifteen years.
His visual face was defined by the renowned studio of DRESS • ŽÁK, who took on work on the exterior and interior of the complex. The project consists of two rinks. The trainings will be led by the ambassadors of the project, the skating champion of Europe Tomáš Verner and the junior world ice hockey champion Martin Holý.
The lack of daylight. That was the basic thing that we had to deal with. The client´s brief was to propose the interior design as light as possible to lighten all rooms. But at first sight, it was sure that it would not be enough.
Light plays a key role here. So the change had to be quite radically. The existing cube mass was cut, a massive part of the supporting wall was removed, shifted few meters far and glazed walls and ceiling were added.
Finally, the light from the South and West could enter the interior.
Despite the fractional reconstruction which was made, we had to deal with lost of bureaucracy resulting from the Prague master plan.
“We began with the idea of merging two opposite scales. The microscopic and the macroscopic. Cells have to divide in order to multiply, grow and specialize properly. Space, for us, means endless opportunities and visions. It is full of creativity and imagination,” says Martin Stára, founder and managing partner of Studio Perspektiv.
“Inspired by varying and distinct phenomena of each scale, we communicate the idea through organic structures, anorganic surfaces, semitransparent walls and membranes, laser beams and an assorted color palette of a galaxy far far away,” adds Jan Antal, managing partner and author of the project.
A top notch bar! A new wine selling, tasting, and exhibiting space opened in the recently completed Rustonka office complex on Rohanské nábřeží (embankment) – Kolby Wine Bar. Aside from being a public bar, it is also intended for private celebrations and company events. The entire space is designed as an exhibition and presentation of the wines of Kolby vineyards. This modest interior forms a chic background and aims at focusing the attention to the most important item, and that is wine.
After a big flooding in 2002, the theatre was affected by a second flooding in 2012. Even though the small Rokytka river did not cause as much damage as Vltava ten years earlier, the theatre had to be renovated all over again. The restoration of the technologies situated in the basement took more than two years. However, Palmovka has lived through all this and decided to refurbish the entrance spaces of the theatre including a box office, a café and a new façade.
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