A young Prague couple decided to extend their small attic apartment to better suit the needs of a family life. The apartment is located in a semi-detached house in a small neighborhood built in the early 1920s in a unique Czech Art Deco style. The neighborhood was named Liberty to celebrate newly established Czechoslovakia.
Project name
Liberty Loft
Architecture firm
System Recovery Architects
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Principal architect
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Design team
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Interior design
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Civil engineer
Design & Build, s.r.o.
Structural engineer
TeAnau, s.r.o.
Environmental & MEP
Design & Build, s.r.o.
Supervision
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Visualization
System Recovery Architects
Construction
Design & Build, s.r.o.
Material
larch, perforated aluminium sheets, spruce
Typology
Residential › Apartment, Renovation, Refurbishment
Forgotten in the terraced vineyard, a stone ruin with a curved space was discovered. Since the ruin was subtly integrated with the landscape, it became the basis of the intervention. The genius loci suggested the Fibonacci Spiral movement which was perfectly aligned with the existing wall.
Architecture firm
Marco Maio Architects
Location
Troja, Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Marco Maio, David Obrovnik, Kaja Likar, Katarina Kobale
Built area
Built-up Area 100 m²
Collaborators
COR-TEN works: Jakub Ščerba
Material
Stone – walls, stairs. Corten steel – doors, niche – small wine cellar, fireplace, stairs, partition wall between platforms. Concrete pavers – platform for wine tasting. Gravel – floors, walking paths.
Typology
Public Space › Landscape
A bright apartment in a new building with large terraces and views of Prague. Where one cooks, eats, works, where children play, watch TV, read, create and sleep. As part of the overhaul of the layout, we first separated a chunk of the living room and made it into a study, playroom and guest room in one, to settle the overly monumental apartment in...
Project name
Welcome Home
Architecture firm
No Architects
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Studio Flusser
Principal architect
Jakub Filip Novák, Daniela Baráčková, Veronika Amiridis Menichová
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Ceramic tiles. Oak floor. Lacquered mdf, oak and birch veneer and solid wood – joinery products
Construction
Truhlářství Fencl
Typology
Residential › House
Remarkable reconstruction of a classical tenement house in the historical centre of Prague intended to serve its original purpose.
Architecture firm
QARTA Architektura
Location
Havelská 27, Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
David Wittassek, Jiří Řezák
Collaborators
Jan Havel, Jan Zmátlík
Built area
Built-up Area 689 m²; Gross Floor Area 3560 m²
Material
Steel truss construction – renovated skylight roofing in the courtyard. Lime stucco – exterior of the whole building. Steel portals – elevator entrances. Steel screens – stair hall. Scrapped plaster – throughout the building. Glass skylights and partitions – in historic apartments. Reinforced concrete – extension of the original staircase. Steel railings – on the new staircase. Wooden beams – original, in the restored parts of the roof
Typology
Residential › House
The name of the restaurant is 5th quarter. There is a long story connected to it and that formed the interior design. We have been asked by the owners to change their Jewish restaurant with long tradition in Josefov quarter in the hear of the Prague city.
Project name
5th Quarter Restaurant
Architecture firm
OBJECTUM s.r.o
Location
Josefov, Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Jana Schnappel Hamrova
Interior design
Jana Schnappel Hamrova
Client
Restaurant 5th quarter
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
How do you create one open space out of a large multi-room apartment so that there doesn't have to be a door between rooms because the client wanted as few as possible, but you still felt like the rooms were separated?
Project name
Letná Apartment
Architecture firm
Markéta Bromová architekti
Location
Letná, Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Veronika Raffajová
Principal architect
Markéta Bromová
Design team
Dominika Galandová
Collaborators
Custom made concrete kitchen countertop and sinks: Burning Vibe. Concrete floor screed surface: Concrete Group. Metalsmith works: DEMO Works. Carpenter works: Lemberk. Pivot doors: Dorsis
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Concrete – floors, columns, ceiling, kitchen countertop, custom made sinks. Patinated brass – tiling of the kitchen island. Solid timber – custom made furniture. perforated steel sheet - bathroom ceiling
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The southern slopes of the first large suburb in the capital city of Prague have always attracted people to posh residential living. However, the romanticizing delirium of typical construction with steep roofs, ostentatious stone soffits and superfluous brick cladding used to be a laughing stock for modernist architects in their time, who dreamed o...
Project name
Under the Top
Architecture firm
No Architects
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Studio Flusser
Principal architect
Jakub Filip Novák, Daniela Baráčková, Lenka Juračková
Collaborators
David Hromada, Joinery products: CZ interiéry
Built area
Built-up Area 173 m² Gross Floor Area 245 m² Usable Floor Area 175 m²
Landscape
Living in green
Material
Ceramic tiles, concrete screed, ash and oak floors. Joinery products – lacquered mdf, oak veneer and solid wood
Typology
Residential › House
The client's wish was to create a home that would provide a feeling of airiness and spaciousness and at the same time, they desired the possibility to separate the daily activities so the members of the household will not disturb each other.
Architecture firm
Formafatal
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Katarína Varsová
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Massif oak – dining table. Concrete – ceiling. Black Terazzo – sills. Oak parquet – floor. Ceramics – walls of bathrooms. Metal – frames, pipes for cables, handrails
Typology
Residential › Apartment
