28. 04. 2020
Všetaty jsou zraněné místo. Rozhovor s Petrem Blažkem

V rámci publikace Památníku Jana Palacha ve Všetatech od autorů Miroslava Cikána a Pavly Melkové (MCA atelier) jsme vyzpovídali historika Petra Blažka, hlavního autora historické expozice a místopředsedu soutěžní poroty. V časopise byla publikována zkrácená verze, plnou verzi rozhovoru naleznete zde.

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27. 04. 2020
A Wounded Place. Jan Palach Memorial in Všetaty Miroslav Cikán, Pavla Melková / MCA atelier

There is a small house in the village of Všetaty, Central Bohemia, which Jan Palach left one January morning in 1969 and never came back. Last year, the house was opened to the public as part of a memorial to commemorate the legacy of Palach’s sacrifice. The memorial consists of the transformed house, penetrated from one side by a sharp steel prism which holds the entrance, a meditative back garden with a bench and a group of trees, and a separate single-story building housing a museum. The scheme is the winner of the architectural & art competition organized by the National Museum in 2015–2016.

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22. 04. 2020
Adapterra Awards. Inspirace pro veřejnost i investory

Zajímáte se o udržitelnou architekturu? Podařilo se vám realizovat zajímavé přírodě blízké krajinné řešení? Navrhli jste domy provázané s krajinou, domy využívající dešťovou nebo šedou vodu, domy se zelenou střechou?

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20. 04. 2020
Dva v jednom

Firma HELUZ přichází s broušenými cihlami HELUZ FAMILY 2in1, které mají v porovnání s ostatními materiály pro jednovrstvé zdění znatelně lepší tepelněizolační vlastnosti. Výrobce cihel HELUZ vyvinul patentovanou metodu plnění cihel malými polystyrenovými kuličkami, díky čemuž se tepelněizolační vlastnosti v porovnání s předcházející řadou cihel vylepšily o 40 %...

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20. 04. 2020
Competing in Architecture Tomáš Zdvihal

Competing in Architecture

Tomáš Zdvihal

This issue of ERA21 solely focuses on architectural competitions, once again, and comes out exactly seven years after our first issue on this topic, in 2013. Public awareness of what architectural competitions are and why they exist has grown slowly but surely during this period, thanks to the efforts of enlightened local politicians, civic associations, city architects, the Czech Chamber of Architects, as well as many journalists and advocates of architecture. Some architects are becoming professional organizers. Municipal institutes and offices with departments dealing specifically with competitions have also cropped up in Prague, Brno, or Ostrava. These are all reasons for why the number of competitions continues to grow.
Granted, this positive trend is tied to the recent construction boom. Globally speaking, design contests remain an entirely marginal way of selecting a contractor, not helped by the fact that systematic state support is largely nonexistent. The full potential of architectural competitions is far from being exploited. If we want them to be more than an extraordinary event, to become a standard procedure, we need to increase effectiveness and minimize risks for both clients and participants. A better proportion of different types of limited competitions, as opposed to traditional open competitions, could help for the smallest as well as the largest commissions. We can find inspiration in countries with a long-term tradition of architectural competitions.
But a higher number of contests says nothing about their eventual success. The goal, after all, isn't pretty pictures, but ideally a finished building. It’s positive that this happens more and more often, too. The grand opening often becomes a social event for the village or town. And surely there is no better way to promote architectural competitions than a successfully completed building.

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