Czechia's Incredible 1960s Supervillain-Lair Hotel (And Why Its Architect Got Banned)

In 1973, a new hotel opened outside the city of Liberec, in what was then Czechoslovakia. And it looked like nothing anyone had seen before. So what's it like inside? How did it win one of the biggest prizes in architecture? And why was its designer banned from the official opening? I travelled to Liberec to find out more...

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WITH THANKS TO
Milena Lánská / Hotel Ještěd - https://www.jested.cz/en

MORE INFO
Jiří Jiroutek / Fenomen Ještěd - https://fenomenjested.com/phenomenom-...
Petr Vorlík - https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de...
"Building Of The Century" by visitliberec.eu - https://www.visitliberec.eu/en/vse-o-...
Financial Times article on the building - https://www.ft.com/content/69a0a1f8-8...
2013 article by expats.cz talking about the planned restoration - https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/arti...

IMAGE CREDITS
Antonín Novotný by Harry Pot / Dutch National Archives - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Tuned Mass Damper from Taipei 101 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Czech "tourists" - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
1970s-era Hotel - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
1970s Czech aeroplane by Lars Soderstrom - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...