In 1973, a new hotel opened outside the city of Liberec, in what was then Czechoslovakia. And it looked like nothing anyone had seen before. So what’s it like inside? How did it win one of the biggest prizes in architecture? And why was its designer banned from the official opening? I travelled to Liberec to find out more…
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With Thanks to Milena Lánská / Hotel Ještěd – https://www.jested.cz/en
More info Jiří Jiroutek / Phenomeni Ještěd – https://fenomenjested.com/phenomenom-jested
Petr Vorlík – https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/icomoshefte/article/view/75098/68771
“Building Of The Century” by visitliberec.eu – https://www.visitliberec.eu/en/vse-o-liberci/horsky-hotel-jested-stavba-stoleti/
Financial Times article on the building – https://www.ft.com/content/69a0a1f8-8060-11dd-99a9-000077b07658
2013 article by expats.cz talking about the planned restoration – https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/restoring-an-iconic-bar-to-its-retro-glory
Image Credits Antonín Novotny by Harry Pot / Dutch National Archives – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anton%C3%ADn_Novotn%C3%BD_1968.jpg
Tuned Mass Damper from Taipei 101 – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuned_mass_damper_-_Taipei_101_-_Wikimania_2007_0224.jpg
Czech “tourists” – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expozice_podnik%C5%AF_%C4%8CSSR_1972a.jpg
1970s -bea hotel – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%A1rodn%C3%A1_kult%C3%BArna_pamiatka._Hotel_Morava,_Tatransk%C3%A1_Lomnica_WMP_19_Slovakia17.jpg
1970s Czech aeroplane by Lars Soderstrom – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSA_Tupolev_Tu-124_Soderstrom-3.jpg
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