Shovels broke ground this week on an addition by Steven Holl Architects (SHA) in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The venue by SHA will host Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Republic’s leading symphony orchestra.
SHA won an international competition to design the building in 2019. Upon completion, Ostrava Concert Hall will be a new structure that runs perpendicular to the Ostrava House of Culture, a socialist realist building completed in 1961 by Jaroslav Fragner. The new building by SHA “jumps over” the Fragner structure, architects from SHA said.
The architects designed a cantilevered steel element that hovers out over Ostrava Concert Hall’s entrance. Intricate corridors will stitch the
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