The glory of Prague has fallen. Houses and buildings that are waiting for their rescue
I stand in front of the stadium and look around. The monumental building at two posthums would be just a bit of its majesty, at first glance it is known to be dilapidated and surrounded by a fence on all sides.
Ragged facade full of cracks, dropped pieces of wall, rusted railings, broken windows, graffiti. The new picture has a kind of nostalgic charm. The magic of poraenho great. I dream of imagining crowds of people who were proud to come in to be able to defend a mass rehearsal under the open sky or a megaconcert of foreign music stars.
I have never had the opportunity to visit the Strahovsk stadium, so let me come in and down from the gallery down to the whole area, which boasts the dimensions of nine football games and a capacity of 250 thousand people.
I take the pity, because and I look around as I want, it doesn’t seem to be possible to get there legally. On the other hand, if I wanted to try not only the statics of the building, the barrier could be overcome. It would only take a little dexterity to make sure no one saw me. I was old and sober for a similar adventure, and I will quickly draw attention to this idea.
Therefore, I pay my attention to the two tall concrete standing bases, which create a central point of space. The architect Ji Trnka, the son of a well-known young man, is also responsible for the loss in the Strahov tunnel, as well as the buildings behind them, which serve as the technical center of the Prague tunnels.
Buildings with lots of glass cubes around the perimeter look dilapidated and look like a spacecraft after a failed piste. And below them, there is another metropolis. You can easily see the Pankrck skyscrapers, and for a long time the outlines of the Krsk river are still visible, there are Malvazinky on the hill and at the bottom of the river you can see the hill rising from the Smchov brewery. I can’t help but miss the futuristic movies.
He can run down the hill into the peaceful-looking villas of the neighborhood. Zhy finds out that the shortcut between the houses does not lead, I also have to take Pod Stadiony Street back until I hit the stairs down. Below them, a steep asphalt road full of various roads and moths leads to the road.
I’ll walk her right away, I’ll be just a step away from the Horn Palata homestead. The street leads above and let me look over the building. It has a distinctive floor plan of buildings with a yellow facade, to which the garden adjoins. The homestead stands in the town of medieval vineyards. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Jesuits repaired it and added farm buildings to the dwellings, the daytime appearance dates from the end of the 19th century.
Residential building with a pavilion vika, a striking crown mass and a saddle roof. The vaults and Renaissance masonry have been preserved in the ground floor. The city looks quiet and as a place for the community inside. As I find out, it serves as a sanatorium for patients who need psychotherapeutic help.
Hebenky. The slope under the Strahov hall is full of architecturally impressive villas, including several diplomatic residences.
The homestead is in contrast to a number of family houses just opposite. The houses are connected to each other and form a low-rise building, which is a cloakroom with lots of greenery. And they are glued to each other quite tsn, give the owner plenty of privacy. Nice place for life.
I return back to Na Hebenkch Street and on the way down the hill I look through several complex terraced houses on the left side. Each is made in a different architectural style, as well as your unconventional and interesting looking panorama.
Dwarf all of a sudden, which is located right next to the bus stop. The entrance is walled up, the windows are closed, the garden is littered with rubbish. It is a functionalist villa of Gustav Ebor, the director of the Litnov dynasty, which was built at the end of the 1930s by the world-famous architect of Jewish origin, Jacques Groag.
An important creator who was born in Olomouc, worked in Vienna and for the second time the wolves in London and Israel, was strongly influenced by his teacher Adolf Loos. The villa is his only building in Prague. The building has served Belgian and French diplomats since the 1950s, planted a deadly rape and post-November.
She restored the restitution to the original owner, who around 2004 grew up renting the building to diplomatic companies and instead sold it to development companies. Since then, the dm and his piled around the greyhound. Jet a much sad fate befell the building, which is only a few tens of meters below the villa.
Not far from the embassy of the Islamic Republic of the Czech Republic is the devastated Hotel Vanek in the immediate vicinity of the Petn Gardens. Two of them were a luxury hotel with a breathtaking breath, today there is a good view of it.
Pomrano gates, smashed windows, walled-in entrance to prevent unaffected invasions. Homeless people and drug addicts are to blame for the poor condition of the building, so they are looking for everything that can be foamed in pawnshops and collection rooms, which managed to plunder and devalue the building over the years.
Hotel Vanek. The hotel was founded in the 1990s by the development of the gare naerno, and for years its operation has been like clockwork.
The hotel was founded in the 1990s by the development of the gare naerno, and for years its operation has been like clockwork. The first critical reviews from disgraceful visitors took place in 2009, when services began to falter, and the hotel was closed the following year.
Katastrowick pbh of the Vaněk Hotel started a fast in 2008. Until then, the prosperous hotel was over its owners in retirement age, and after several bad leases of the end of the debt, the tenant authorized the son to lease the hotel. The bag was empowered and, with the help of a forged power of attorney, the hotel sold an organized group that probably owed other known funds from its two activities, describes Radomr Ko, who is a co-founder platforms Empty houses. And adding that the court recognized the first Mr. Vanko’s owner, the whole case will be decided because the other parties are consistently seeking their first.
Empty houses map the fate of abandoned buildings throughout the Czech Republic through websites. They have a freely accessible database so that anyone can update data about individual objects. It can be deduced from this that the owner of sometimes and valuable buildings let them relinquish, but so that the building has dragged on the court’s dispute over ownership.
An initiative in the metropolis under the ridges, where the most interesting houses show. First we go to Strahov by a serpentine route and down to Bertramka. To keep people entertained, let’s show the empty villa with functionalist buildings with unusual history and interesting poor owner, Radomr Ko.
Immediately after the arrest, he looks at me, an unmistakable object, which is so desolate at first sight. Vosmka’s villa got its name from the sculptor and restorer ek Vosmek, who took part in the statues for the National Museum and thus helped Josef Vclav Myslbek with the monument to St. Wenceslas.
As a restorer, he created a copy of Platzer’s sculpture of the rescuing giants at the entrance to Prague Castle, and thus a copy of the sculpture of St. Frantika Xaverski on Charles Bridge, which was destroyed during the flood of 1890. He is the author of many busts and relics of prominent personalities of his time, such as Boena Nmcov or Frantik Palackho.
Nad Vinka. Leo Burnett, two years ago (19942004), reported the radio here.
The high villa was designed for his friend by the architect Josef Fanta in 1910. When viewed from behind, the windows do not have darkness, but the conservatory and the façade are painted with paintings and inscriptions. After the death of the architect’s daughter Rena Vosmkov, it was sold in the 1990s and the current owner is a distinguished lawyer, Karel Muzik.
On the way down the streets of Na Hebenkch I have a number of other interesting houses, most of them have been reconstructed and some even have their names written on the facade. Take the village street, which is crossed by the picturesque street U Nesypky. At the beginning of the suddenly repaired chapel of the Holy Trinity, the original Baroque building, the rest gave way to the construction of the road in 1914. What is interesting, the same owner as Vosmkova vila.
I continue down Zapova Street and after a few meters I will reach the residential buildings of the Luxembourg Ambassador, where I had the opportunity to visit last year. The luxurious interior and beautifully decorated exterior is in stark contrast to the neglected house across the street, which is hidden behind trees. There is a dot with the name on the gate, the other name is on the bell. Probably no one inside.
I will slowly get to Holekova Street, where the world of modern sidewalks and unmaintained houses will be overthrown, among which modern buildings will be built at a reversible speed.
More than a year ago, a printing press belonging to Václav Neubert, a leading Prague printer and publisher of the first half of the 20th century, was located near the Strahov tunnel. Today, a fence is being built behind the fence, on which a new residential complex is growing.
In the vicinity of Plzesk Street there are no vbn.ediv, unmaintained houses, a restaurant, a bazaar, a restaurant and a restaurant a short distance from each other. A rather cheerful view is of the Bertramka homestead, which is located just a step uphill near Mrzovka Park. Just a code that is not open to the public.