GOLDEN ANGEL

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
2001

Jean Nouvel´s attractive and daring vision of transformation of the Smíchov borough was initiated by the new geopolitical situation. Prague opens to the world and starts generating new strata while respecting the valuable historic continuity and adds to its collection of buildings. Zlatý Anděl – this is the resultant of an enormous will and effort of all the cooperating parties: the open-mined investor financially supporting a dateless project. The architect exerting the highest creative courage possible and at the same time acknowledging enormous humbleness. The main contractor capable of producing extraordinary output, if necessary.  And eventually the society, a phenomenon everything begins with – it sets up requirements and conditions – and a piece of art integrates into. The final appearance of Andìl is a materialised symbolism of a figural motive. The High-Tech structural design is in symbiosis with the period poetics – emotions embraced by a hyperbolic paraboloid.

Category:

Offices and retail

Cooperation:

Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Ocenění:

The prize awarded by the magazine Stavitel / Builder for architectural detail

Title Building of the Year 2001

Client:

ING Real Estate Development CR

Realization:

2001

Location:

Prague, Czech Republic