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07-03-2022

The Lookout Spike, a lookout point by Mjölk architekti

The Czech studio Mjölk architekti has created a new lookout point near the town of Tanvald, in North Moravia. Although it is an element inspired by the nearby bobsleigh track and therefore characterised by a decidedly futuristic formal appearance, it gracefully fits as a new landmark in the surrounding landscape.

10-01-2022

Lookout by henkai architekti with ZAHRADA-PARK-KRAJINA

An architectural project on an abandoned hill in an old sandstone quarry enriches the experience of visitors to the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area. The project by Czech studio henkai architekti with ZAHRADA-PARK-KRAJINA provides new paths and three little architectural structures as lookouts for contemplating the landscape.

22-12-2021

Wellness in contact with nature, Studio Reaktor

Studio Reaktor, the Czech architecture studio founded by architects Jakub Heidler and Jan Kačer, has designed a wellness park in Senohraby in the Czech Republic, which invites users to relax in close contact with nature. The design and the surrounding landscape are in constant and intimate dialogue, for a truly unique and sustainable experience.

09-12-2021

A passive building for active people: the o-va sports complex in Kolín

Everyone knows that the gym is good for you – but this one is good for the environment, too, thanks to a series of design choices made by the architects of Czech studio o-va, who built a gym with a reduced environmental footprint in Kolín, on the banks of the Elbe River in the Czech Republic.

18-10-2021

Prodesi/Domesi designs small cottage inspired by a ship cabin

The latest project by the Czech architectural firm Prodesi/Domesi is a small holiday home inspired by a ship cabin. A cottage engaged in an intense dialogue with the nature of the artificial lake on whose shore it stands and characterised by a marked materiality projected by the careful attention to the surrounding environmental context.

09-09-2021

A long history: ORA Architects’ Kocanda Kravsko

Czech studio ORA Architects has completed the first stage in conversion of a former ceramic factory in Moravia into a venue for social events and farm holidays, with refurbishment of the Baroque building in the centre of the complex, which was originally built as a coach inn on the road between Prague and Vienna.

11-08-2021

Best of Livegreenblog, places of culture

Throughout the year we have often talked about architecture for culture, from large museums to tiny art galleries, castles and cultural centres. The four projects we are presenting as the best of this first part of 2021 all have a common denominator: they are works created in the pre-existing environment.

28-06-2021

Yoga and art in Brno, a project by RO_AR Szymon Rozwalka architects

Czech studio RO_AR Szymon Rozwalka architects built a Yoga Garden and Art Gallery in the city of Brno, in the Czech Republic: a space that goes beyond the preconceptions linked with yoga, combining yoga with art, using as their point of departure a post-industrial structure that now also incorporates greenery.