The offices were gone, the art was spinning. Ikonick Pavilion Expo 58 oil again
The pavilion was unobstructed for a long time, serving as office space. Laptops and office space disappeared from the bird and the space was given art, as a new gallery, Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery, opened in the building.
The modern pavilion is the work of architects Frantik Cubr, Josef Hrub and Zdek Pokorn from 1958 as a part of the Czechoslovak pavilion at Svtov vstav Expo 58 in Brussels, where it literally became a sensation.
The world appreciated the sophisticated architecture, where thanks to the full construction of the building and the glazed interior, the interior was naturally connected with the exterior and the progressive steel structure.
The pavilion won the first prize and the next one was awarded. During the first year of the last exhibition, there were six million girls, including the Belgian King Baudouin I, the Dutch Queen Juliana, Prince Rainier III of Monaco. I’m filming Walt Disney.
First UNESCO, then chtrn
After the completion of the exhibition, the building was transported to Prague and rebuilt in Letenské sady. Subsequently, Expo 58 was declared a cultural monument in 1964 and in 1992 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The second part of the exhibition was irretrievably destroyed by pores at the end of the 1990s. The Letná pavilion also started to be lost, followed by a small privatization and a change of ownership several times. The once-fortified city was gradually left to its fate.
Between 1997 and 2001, the building underwent extensive reconstruction, after which an advertising agency communicated in the pavilion.