Most is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 64,000 inhabitants.
Wenceslas Square is one of the main city squares and the centre of the business and cultural communities in the New Town of Prague, Czech Republic. Many historical events occurred there, and it is a traditional setting for demonstrations, celebrations, and other public gatherings. It is also the place with the busiest pedestrian traffic in the whole country. The square is named after Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia. It is part of the historic centre of Prague, a World Heritage Site.
Český rozhlas is the public radio broadcaster of the Czech Republic operating continuously since 1923. It is the oldest national radio broadcaster in continental Europe and the second oldest in Europe after the BBC. Český rozhlas was established in 1992 by the Czech Radio Act, which sets out the framework for its operation and financing. It acts as the successor to the previous state-owned Czechoslovak Radio which ceased to exist by 1992.
Eva Jiřičná is a Czech architect and designer, active in London and Prague. She is the founder of the architectural atelier Eva Jiricna Architects, operating in Britain from 1982 to 2017 and a co-founder of AI DESIGN, that she opened in 1999 together with Petr Vágner. She is known for her attention to detail and work of a distinctly modern style, and for her glass staircases.
Lety concentration camp was a World War II internment camp for Romani people from Bohemia and Moravia during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. It was located in Lety.
City Tower is the tallest skyscraper in Prague and in Bohemia, and the second tallest one in the Czech Republic standing on the Pankrác Plain with a height of 109 meters.
Josef Pleskot is a Czech architect. He is known mainly as the designer of the pedestrian tunnel in the Deer Moat at the Prague Castle, and administrative building of the ČSOB in Prague. In 2009, he was voted the most significant Czech architect of the 1989-2009 period.
Svatopluk Sládeček is a Czech architect, well known for his "figurative architecture".
Markéta Veselá is a Czech architect.
The Bakala Foundation is a family foundation established by Zdeněk Bakala and Michaela Bakala. It was founded in the Czech Republic in 2007 originally as Zdeněk Bakala Foundation and renamed The Bakala Foundation in 2014. The foundation’s main focus is on education. Through the Scholarship program, Bakala Foundation supports the attendance of Czech students at universities abroad. It has also financed other projects in the Czech Republic, such as the Kaplicky Internship for young architects or Achilles Data and Journey for young journalists.
HB Reavis is a real estate developer company active mainly in Slovakia, Poland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany. The company is active both in development of new projects and asset management of existing portfolio.
Bílá labuť is a department store on Na Poříčí Street in central Prague, Czech Republic. It is considered to be one of the finest examples of interwar avant-garde architecture. It is recognised by the Prague Municipality as an architecturally valuable building and is protected as a cultural real estate monument. At the time it was opened in 1939, it was the biggest and most modern department store in Central and Eastern Europe. It is currently undergoing extensive renovation.
Jiří Siegel was a Czech architect and basketball player.
Westfield Chodov, previously known as Centrum Chodov, is a shopping center in the Chodov district of Prague, Czech Republic. It is located near the metro station of the same name, between the streets U Kunratického lesa, Roztylská and the D1 motorway towards Brno. Westfield Chodov is the largest shopping center in the Czech Republic with 300 shops, and the retail floor area is 100.000 m2, the second largest in the country behind shopping centre Letňany. The owner of Westfield Chodov is the company Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. It was built in 2005, with a major expansion occurred in 2017. It receives 13 million customers annually, employing approximately 8,000 people.
The Marian column of Prague is a religious monument consisting of a column topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary, located in the city's Old Town Square. The original column was erected in 1650, shortly after the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War. It was demolished in November 1918, coinciding with the fall of Austria-Hungary. In 2020, the column was reconstructed, being completed on 15 August 2020.
Jan Fišer is a Czech architect, designer, and university professor.
Václav Aulický is a Czech architect and university professor. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. His buildings have hi-tech and postmodern elements.
Ferdinand Leffler is a Czech garden and landscape designer and the founder of Flera landscape architecture studio. His projects have won many awards and can be found all over the world. In addition to garden design, he promotes garden architecture. He was a host and a co-author of the TV show Ferdinand's Gardens on Czech Television channel, he has published books Green Rooms and Live in Your Garden, he regularly creates video content on Flera TV YouTube channel, organizes seminars as a part of Flera Academy project and in spring 2021 he launched online course “Live in Your Garden” in which he teaches how to plan a garden.
A69 Architects is an architecture studio in Prague-Braník, Czech Republic. It was founded in 1994 in Cheb by Boris Redčenkov and Prokop Tomášek as the association Atelier 69 – architects, since 2003 as A69 – architects. The studio is doing design work on one-family houses with characteristic features as well as urban planning.
Hotel Praha was a luxury hotel located in the Dejvice neighborhood of Prague, Czech Republic. Built in 1981, the hotel was used by Communist Party of Czechoslovakia officials and their guests until 1989, when it became open to the public. It was demolished in 2014 after being purchased by billionaire Petr Kellner.
