Referencing local town houses lined with ground floor arcades which dominated the area until the 1960s, the design of the Nové Lauby apartment building in Ostrava forms a single compact city-block volume to reinforce the historical street structure. The building mass changes appropriately to the immediate surroundings. Some design features on the ground floor, a changing height of the cornice and different window arrangements suggest where individual houses of the block start, but overall the building has a unified character. Functionally, it uses a set of five separate communication cores. Inside the block there is a quiet courtyard. The ground-floor restaurant facing Velká Street features a series of arched windows shaded by a shallow overhang. This wider section of the street forms a pedestrian zone as a continuation of the existing Old Town Hall arcade.

Česká komora architektů na nominačním večeru 10. ročníku České ceny za architekturu za přítomnosti mezinárodních porotců odtajnila pětadvacet děl, která byla nominována do užšího výběru. Jméno hlavního vítěze i dalších finalistů bude slavnostně oznámeno 13. listopadu 2025 na galavečeru ve Foru Karlín. Na nominačním večeru, pořádaném 19. června 2025 v Kotelně Uhelného mlýna v Libčicích nad Vltavou, byla zároveň udělena Pocta ČKA, předána Cena za výjimečný počin v oblasti architektury a poprvé v historii ČCA spuštěno i hlasování veřejnosti.

You are what you eat. This motto from an early-2000s reality TV show can be rephrased into something even more telling: you are the culture you consume. But can culture really be consumed? Misunderstanding culture as an object of consumption leads to its degradation into mere leisure entertainment—and misses the meaning of the word, which comes from the Latin ‘colere.’ This conflict of interpretation has recently surfaced in České Budějovice, as the city prepares for its European Capital of Culture (ECoC) term in 2028. The political leadership and the cultural public clearly subscribe to very different definitions. And it’s becoming clear that when culture is approached the wrong way, the ECoC title might end up doing more harm than good. The effects are most visible in architecture and in how public space is managed. In short, České Budějovice seems to be headed toward international embarrassment.