Reading
The archive reads fronts by period before it reads them by trade. These four chapters are the whole vocabulary of the book.
Chapter
Stone cores that predate every front on them
Hotel Josef
Eva Jiřičná's glass and steel answer to the Jewish Quarter, opened in 2002.
Josefov · Praha 1
€252
4.89 / 5 · 4,150 records
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Chapter
Cartouche and vault, built to be looked up at
Hotel U Tří pštrosů
A Renaissance sign over a doorway below the castle steps: three ostriches, painted, still pointing the way in.
Malá Strana · Praha 1
€216
4.88 / 5 · 5,043 records
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Hotel Theatrino
Theatrino's 1913 theatre on Bořivojova, Žižkov's own stage of a house.
Žižkov · Praha 3
€178
4.86 / 5 · 3,301 records
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Chapter
The 1900s answering the seventeenth century
Hotel U Prince
Twenty-nine rooms over the Old Town Square, an attic terrace directly under the clock.
Staré Město · Praha 1
€241
4.97 / 5 · 9,302 records
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Dancing House Hotel
Gehry and Milunić's tilted glass, 1996, the only dancing building in the city.
Nové Město · Praha 2
€303
4.90 / 5 · 2,277 records
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Chapter
Glass, steel and a plan drawn as sculpture
Hotel Savoy
An 1890s house at the castle gate, marble and quiet since the rebuild in 2001.
Hradčany · Praha 1
€381
4.95 / 5 · 1,689 records
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