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News • News • 21 Nov 2024
KURZ Architects completes idiosyncratic office space in Prague with emphasis on recycled materials
Czech architectural studio KURZ Architects has completed the refurbishment of an idiosyncratic office space for the marketing agency Czech Promotion. Located in the Karlín neighborhood of Prague, the bright and airy office design makes particular use of recycled materials.
Lucie Fenclová
KURZ Architects first worked with Czech Promotion in 2017 on the design of the marketing agency’s 900-square-meter (9,688-square-feet) premises in the Palác Karlín (Karlín Palace). The architectural studio recently returned to Palác Karlín to work on another office space for the agency. This 1,000-square-meter (10,764-square-feet) space “differs from the current design trends with its ai... More
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SinnerSchrader Studio Prague
'Form follows function', one of the strongest mantras of modern architectures found another tight fit at the new studio premises of SinnerSchrader in Prague. The Czech based Kurz architects designed a new office space in an old industrial building. Both, the architects and the German based digital agency, combined the ideas of interior and digital architectures. Throughout the course of a half-year period, they used agile processes to plan, build and create a space for 60 digital workers. With a fixed budget and timing, the scope of the solution was constantly re-prioritised and iterated upon - in an open, joyful and proactive manner. Trust and willingness to execute stood in the foreground of the international collaboration. Elements like... More
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Office Premises for Czech Promotion
Design and reconstruction of administrative premises for a communication agencyArchitect: Kurz architekti / Kurz architectsContact e-mail address: [email protected], web: www.kurz.archiAddress: Thámova 289/13, Prague 8 – KarlínClient: Czech Promotion (www.promotion.cz) // CZECH PROMOTION group, s.r.o. Can the Media contact? yesProject: 2016 Implementation: 2017Area: 900 m²Photographs: BoysPlayNice (www.boysplaynice.com)Designer’s ReportThe task to move the Czech Promotion communication agency in a mere three months from the famous Winternitz Villa by Adolf Loos to the unreconstructed premises of Karlín Palace with its own, albeit not as famous, history seemed fatuous, even naïve at first. Yet it was the time pressure which shaped the design i... More