News from Radio Prague - 04/23/2010
Architect Jan Kaplický "lived for his vision", says curator of new exhibition Eva Jiricná
The late architect Jan Kaplický has been in the news a lot recently. A new documentary was released last week about the collapse of his dream to finally see one of his designs realised in Prague: the futuristic yellow structure, nicknamed the Blob, was to have served as a new National Library building, but met opposition from politicians. Now an exhibition at the city’s Dox gallery – featuring ...
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News from The Prague Post - 04/22/2010
Accounting for taste
Havel and Co. Kaplický shows off his otherworldly design in Eye Above Prague.
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News from Radio Prague - 04/15/2010
Film captures thwarted plans for futuristic Jan Kaplický building in Prague
The documentary Oko nad Prahou (The Eye Above Prague), which premiered in the city on Wednesday night, is about Jan Kaplický winning the contract to build a new National Library building in the Czech Republic’s first ever international architecture tender. However, his futuristic design – nicknamed the Blob – soon met opposition from the president and others and the plan was abandoned ...
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News from Radio Prague - 04/15/2010
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News from Ceské noviny - 04/15/2010
Exhibition of architect Kaplicky´s work opens in Prague
The display wants to present Kaplicky to Czechs in a broader context, not only as the author of the winning design of a new National Library building in Prague, the project which was postponed indefinitely, however.
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News from The Prague Post - 04/15/2010
Cinematic union
Promoted and developed in association with embassies and cultural institutes from current and future members of the European Union, the Days of European Film festival kicks off in Prague April 15-22 before traveling to Brno, Plzen and five other cities throughout the Czech Republic.
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News from The Prague Post - 04/15/2010
Beauty governs all
Workmen swab the floor of the Big Hall at DOX, Prague's Center for Contemporary Art. A 700 square meter freestanding wall coils across the gallery, the plaster still wet, and the room is dotted with plaster buckets and stepladders.
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News from Ceské noviny - 03/20/2010
Czech press survey - March 20
Prague - The two strongest Czech parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Social Democrats (CSSD), have so long concentrated on a possible change to the election law that would remove small praties from political competition until the small parties have become viable, Jiri Hanak writes in daily Pravo today.
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News from Radio Prague - 02/15/2010
Film roundup with critic Ilona Francková
It’s that time of the year again for the Czech film industry; the red carpet is about to come out for the Czech Lions – that is, the top Czech film prize awarded by the Czech Film and Television Academy – but there have also been a series of higher-than-ordinary-profile films of late and some new directions taken in the industry. In the studio to talk over some of that, and to give us an idea of ...
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 01/28/2010
Sneak Peek at Alessi's Spring Line: "Carnal" Mixing Bowl, Fork Like a Fighter Plane
Last spring, as retail sales were tanking worldwide, the Italian design firm Alessi ramped up. On Wednesday, at its flagship Soho store in New York, the company announced that it would unveil three collections in 2010 instead of the usual two, so as to accommodate the firm's record number of products (see the collections in this slideshow ). From curvaceous mixing bowls, done in collaboration ...
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News from Art Daily - 12/31/2009
Goodbye to Some of the Notable People in the Arts Who Left Us in 2009
NEW YORK, NY.- On the last day of the year, we would like to say goodbye to those artists who left us this past year. Here, a roll call of some of the notable people in art and popular culture who died in 2009.
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News from Independent - 12/22/2009
Review of the Year 2009: Obituaries
John Hughes
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 10/12/2009
Amanda Levete: to infinity and beyond
She created some of the most thrilling, space-age buildings in Britain with her husband Jan Kaplicky. Now Amanda Levete is going it alone
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News from Radio Prague - 10/06/2009
Fresh Czech design showcased at Museum of Decorative Arts
A new exhibition entitled Cerstvé! or Fresh! has just got underway at Prague’s Museum of Decorative Arts. It showcases recent acquisitions of the Museum, including glass, china, fashion, jewelry, furniture and graphic collections by prominent Czech designers and manufacturers. The exhibition is part of a larger event annual Designblok festival, which also starts today.
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News from Radio Prague - 09/11/2009
“What buildings could be like if they weren’t so horribly earthbound” – UK exhibition commemorates architect Jan ...
The late Czech architect Jan Kaplický's buildings have been described as 'some of the most remarkable... that Britain has ever seen' and, by a disgruntled Prince Charles, as amongst the worst examples of 'the surrealist picnic' that is modern architecture. When Kaplický died at the beginning of 2009, British architecture lost one of its most creative, and provocative, figures. Long-time friend ...
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Blog from London SE1 community website - 07/07/2009
Remembering Jan Kaplicky: Architect of the Future at the Design Museum
The Design Museum's small tribute to the Czech architect who died earlier this year includes a couple of items of local interest.
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Blog from Dexigner Design Portal - 07/01/2009
Remembering Jan Kaplicky: Architect of the Future
Jan Kaplicky, who died earlier this year aged 71, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever seen.
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Blog from things to look at - 06/30/2009
Jan Kaplický Architect of the Future
The Guardian dubbed him 'the most radical architects of the last 40 years'. Best known for designing the Media centre at Lord's and the branch of Selfridges in Birmingham's Bullring centre, Czech born Jan Kaplicky died this year and is the subject of a new exhibition on at The Design Museum along with the bigger-scale Mariscal , both opening tomorrow. Well worth a visit if you like crazy visions of the future. We, here at Things to Look At enjoyed peering very closely into the models so we could imagine some Logan's Run vision of the future.
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Blog from archiCentral - 06/20/2009
‘Remembering Jan Kaplicky – Architect Of The Future’
‘Remembering Jan Kaplicky – Architect of the Future’ is an upcoming exhibition which will open on July 1st at the Design Museum, London. 01 July – 01 November Jan Kaplický, who died earlier this year, was the Czech architect (Future Systems) responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever seen. Lord’
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Blog from archiCentral - 04/20/2009
Antonin Dvorak Concert And Congress Centre By Future Systems
April 20th, 2009 .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { ... and Congress Centre has been designed by the Future Systems team headed by Jan Kaplicky. The new center
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