Archinect - News2024-05-23T05:38:50-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150351816/chybik-kristof-debut-greenhouse-tribute-to-gregor-mendel-in-brno
CHYBIK + KRISTOF debut greenhouse tribute to Gregor Mendel in Brno Josh Niland2023-06-01T17:03:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fc/fc3842f349660c77f6741265ce03fdcd.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Brno office of <a href="https://archinect.com/chybik.kristof" target="_blank">CHYBIK + KRISTOF (CHK)</a> just completed a new scientific greenhouse project in its historic Czech Republic home city.</p>
<p>Mendel’s Greenhouse is an homage to the influential late-19th-century genetics biologist and takes its form from the namesake’s own drawings of the human hereditary system produced at St. Augustin Abbey, to which the then 22-year-old first came to reside in 1844.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/58/5893b44a8dbfdd2e4aab169c7acb6d19.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/58/5893b44a8dbfdd2e4aab169c7acb6d19.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF.</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0f/0f082290b4cd1febd8ee0adfdbf682bc.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0f/0f082290b4cd1febd8ee0adfdbf682bc.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF.</figcaption></figure><p>Taking the resemblance of the site’s original greenhouse that served as a laboratory for Mendel until it was destroyed in the 1870s, the new glass and steel structure will serve as a permanent exhibition of his scientific legacy as it doubles as a new hub for community and social engagement for Brno’s population of nearly 400,000.<br></p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/28/28f2a3a4a1a9f090a6eda1cb069998e3.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/28/28f2a3a4a1a9f090a6eda1cb069998e3.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF.</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5b/5be22443754fb8499c8e2911c0a74e4e.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5b/5be22443754fb8499c8e2911c0a74e4e.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF.</figcaption></figure><p>CHK empha...</p>