The Open House Festival will open a hundred normally inaccessible buildings in Prague over the weekend
This year, the eighth year of the Open House Prague festival is dedicated to commemorating the jubilee of the birth of several important architects working in the Czech lands. One of them is the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, who was born 150 years ago in January, and those interested can see his most famous building in Prague, the Church of the Sacred Heart of the Lord in Vinohrady. Pavel Janák or the representative of the so-called Czech Neo-Renaissance Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann. From the work of Janák, who was 140 years old since March, the program includes buildings from various periods of his life, such as the Club House of the Czech Autoclub, the functionalist Hotel Juliš on Wenceslas Square, the Adria Palace in the so-called style style or the constructivist building of the Vinohrady National Hus Choir. with an unmissable bell tower. This time, people are also responsible for architecture in remote parts of Prague, such as Zbraslav, Modřany or Komořany. They can visit the recently completed City Hall of Prague 12, the premises of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute in the castle in Komořany and its surroundings or the newly renovated community center Klubovna Zbraslav in the place of the former laundry by architects from the Projektil studio.