Archinect - News2024-05-05T18:23:15-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/142133385/providing-egalitarian-habitat-for-humanity
Providing egalitarian habitat for humanity Nam Henderson2015-11-30T05:04:00-05:00>2015-11-29T22:07:29-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/zc/zczderrig73j7f8x.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>more of them were built in the former Czechoslovakia — in a boom that stretched from 1959 to 1995 — than any place else on what was once Soviet earth. Today, about a third of all Czechs and Slovaks, from all income brackets, still call their panelaks home</p></em><br /><br /><p>Lisa Schwarzbaum traveled to Bratislava to explore its ubiquitous panelaks (aka "panel house"), Soviet era concrete high-rise housing units. The city is also the home of monuments to new capitalism, such as the <a href="http://www.aupark-bratislava.sk/W/do/centre/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aupark</a> shopping center and corporate complexes like Digital Park.</p><p>On a related note back in 2014, <a href="http://www.czech.cz/en/Life-Work/What-does-the-future-hold-for-prefabricated-%E2%80%98panel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hello Czech Republic</a> interviewed architect Michal Kohout regarding possible future(s) for the panelak housing estates. </p>