The Libeň Bridge ( Czech : Libeňský most) is a bridge in Prague over the river Vltava . It connects the city quarter Holešovice on the left side with the city quarter Libeň on the right side of the river. It is the fifteenth bridge way down the river and there is a tram line on its roadway.
7-534: The Libeň Bridge is 370 metres long but it has 780 metres together with the ramp on the side of Holešovice. With its 780 metres, it is the longest bridge in Prague. Its wide is 21 metres and the tram line is a part of the bridge since its opening. The concrete bridge was designed by architects Pavel Janák and František Mencl in the Cubist style. It has five arches with the spans between 28 and 43 metres. It has replaced
14-672: A purer functionalism. His 1925 Palace Adria is an unusually late example of integrated sculpture. As the chairman of the Czechoslovak Werkbund he drew up the master plan for the 1932 Baba Werkbund Housing Estate, the last of the European housing exhibitions, and also designed 3 of its 32 houses. He was also responsible for the design for the Hussite Church in Vinohrady . In 1936 he took over from Jože Plečnik as
21-412: The bridge got reopened for trams. On January 11, 2024, the bridge got closed for trams again. Originally proposed name: Masaryk Bridge (Masarykův most), in honor of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , the first President of Czechoslovakia 1928-1939: Libeň Bridge (Libeňský most), according to the nearest city quarter Libeň 1939-1940: Baxa Bridge (Baxův most), in honor of Karel Baxa , the mayor of Prague in
28-620: The publication of an article The Prism and The Pyramid advocating dynamic architectural compositions and destabilizing traditional right-angled buildings, Janák became the leading theoretician of Czech Cubism . Of the three Czech cubists—Janák, Josef Chochol and Josef Gočár —Janák built fewer buildings and produced more theoretical work, but his 1913 Fara House in Pelhřimov is a key work in that style. After 1918 Janák and Gočár developed Cubism into Czech Rondocubism , with decoration taken from folk and nationalist themes, and then subsequently into
35-650: The supervising architect of Prague Castle . Pavel Janák was also associated with the functionalist Baba housing project in Prague, the Werkbund inspired housing estate located on the outskirts of Prague Pavel Janák created the Master Plan for this community, and was also in charge of selecting the architects that would be involved. Although Baba survived the World Wars, it is now in danger of historical extinction due to recent renovations and neglect. In 2006,
42-505: The temporary wooden bridge which stood on its place since the year 1903. The Libeň Bridge was open for the public on April 29, 1928, to the tenth anniversary of the existence of Czechoslovakia . The bridge was slightly damaged by the flood in the year 2002. In 2016, a study by the ČVUT stated that the bridge needs restoration. On early January 19, 2018, the Prague City Hall closed the bridge for cars and trams. On March 3, 2018,
49-762: The years 1919-1937 1940-1945: Libeň Bridge (Libeňský most), according to the nearest city quarter Libeň 1945-1952: Baxa Bridge 1952-1962: Stalingrad Bridge (Stalingradský most), according to the city of Stalingrad ( Volgograd today) since 1962: Libeň Bridge Pavel Jan%C3%A1k Pavel Janák (12 March 1881 in Karlín – 1 August 1956 in Prague - Dejvice ) was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician. Janák studied with Otto Wagner in Vienna between 1906 and 1908, and worked in Prague under Jan Kotěra . In 1911, with
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