Palace Moravia is a building in City of Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

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Czech Republic

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In 1926 an architectonical competition for the model of a hotel was announced. This was supposed to be built on a place of former music-hall building. Beside home-born also such world-known architects as Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens was a German architect and designer. He was important for the modernist movement, as several of the movements leading names worked for him when they were young.-Biography:Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882...

 and Jacobus Oud

Jacobus Oud

Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, commonly called J. J. P. Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement....

 had participated in this contest. Eventually this place was built over by Arnošt Wiesner

Arnošt Wiesner

Ernst Wiesner, also known as Arnošt Wiesner was a modernist architect, one of the foremost interwar period architects of Brno....

 by a slightly different complex of buildings. He had to face up not only ground plan difficult parcel but also geologically poor sub-soil. During the design he also cooperated with structural engineer Jaroslav Valenta.

In the bottom part of the building there was a commercial zone, a basement cinema and a bar. A coffee lounge was situated in the first floor with a large terrace attached to it. Thanks to the genial natural lightning in the top area of the building, Wiesner dedicated this part to residential apartments. A contrast of reinforced concrete and raw brickwork is also very interesting. Later on, Wiesner linked the building of Moravská zemská životní pojišťovna (Moravian Life Insurance Company) to the whole construction. The project was finally completed in 1936.

See also

• Palác Morava is also name for planned business centrum building in Olomouc
  Olomouc
  Olomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis and historical capital city of Moravia. Nowadays, it is an administrative centre of the Olomouc Region and sixth largest city in the Czech Republic...
  
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  Moravia
  Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...
  
  http://zpravy.idnes.cz/zpr_regiony.asp?r=zpr_regiony&c=A020419_085920_zpr_regiony_boh

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