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CHYBIK + KRISTOF debut greenhouse tribute to Gregor Mendel in Brno

2023-06-01T17:03:00-04:00

The Brno office of CHYBIK + KRISTOF (CHK) just completed a new scientific greenhouse project in its historic Czech Republic home city.

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.

Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF.

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.

Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF.

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Feilden+Mawson envisions new art and architecture campus for one of the Czech Republic's top universities

2022-01-18T18:35:00-05:00

A much-needed upgrade is coming to one of the most popular universities in the Czech Republic thanks to plans for a new art and architecture campus for Brno University of Technology from Feilden+Mawson’s FAM Architekti studio.

Image: Feilden+Mawson / FAM Architekti

The Prague-based entity is responsible for the transformation of a 19th-century former army barracks into what will become the new home for both the architecture and fine arts faculties. A full-scale extension of one of the two main extant buildings will provide architecture students with design studios, a library, and auditorium space while the fine arts facilities only require minor additions and alterations. Each will be connected through a large new opening which houses a cafe.

Image: Feilden+Mawson / FAM Architekti

FAM is envisioning the architecture facility as an open floor plan with “sort of a studio landscape.” A large central atrium stands...

Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology by CHYBIK+KRISTOF AA

2012-01-11T15:17:00-05:00

Czech firm CHYBIK+KRISTOF Associated Architects have shared with us their schematic design for the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic. The project team also included Ivan Ruller and Ondrej Stehlik.