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7-400: The structure is located in the immediate vicinity of The Angel Crossroad (Křižovatka Anděl) which was named after The Golden Angel's Pharmacy (Lékárna U Zlatého Anděla). The pharmacy as well as its symbol - gilded statue of an angel - was demolished in 1980 to make a room for new subway station. Nouvel started The Golden Angel project in 1994. The construction was launched five years later and

14-512: A Jew his life under Nazi rule was extremely restricted, but for a time he continued to write under pseudonyms . At some point in 1940 his situation worsened and he was no longer able to write under pseudonyms. This situation forced him to take odd jobs and a romantic relationship failed around this time. Eight days before his death, his pseudonymous writing was denounced in the antisemitic periodical Arijský boj . Although he had shown interest in communism in youth religious themes concerning

21-653: A Czech building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ji%C5%99%C3%AD Orten Jiří Orten (born Jiří Ohrenstein ; 30 August 1919 in Kutná Hora – 1 September 1941 in Prague ) was a Czech poet . His work was influenced by surrealism and folklore . Orten was born in Kutná Hora as Jiří Ohrenstein. His first book of poems, Čítanka jaro (Reader of Spring), came out in 1939. He spent time in Paris , but ultimately returned to Prague . As

28-537: A Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire , looks down upon the golden Angel crossroads, floating among clouds. A unique technology has been developed for portraying clouds and the Angel. Graphics is printed on an advert foil and cut into millimetre-sized dots, which are stuck onto the facade in a density of 80,000/m2. Number of dots on the complex is reaching 150 millions; the printing and cutting process ran uninterruptedly for over 7 months. This article about

35-604: The Book of Job and God became more evident in his writing. On 30 August 1941 he was hit by an ambulance. He was taken to the General Infirmary, which refused him treatment because he was Jewish, so he was moved to another hospital. He died two days later. Although he gained a cult following for a few years after his death, the Communists later rejected him as "degenerative muck." His work gained renewed interest during

42-673: The Prague Spring , and ultimately opinion of him rebounded. This re-appraisal led Czechoslovakia to create a literary prize named for him in 1987. In 2011, White Picture , a collection of Orten's poetry in an English translation by the American poet Lyn Coffin , was published. Lyn's translations of Orten were described by Orten's brother, Ota Ornest, as "the poems Jiří would have written if he'd written in English." The book features an introduction by Ed Hirsch. Jiří Orten Award ,

49-760: The complex was completed in November 2000. The exclusive investor of the building is the ING Real Estate company. The Golden Angel is curve-shaped and edges are rounded. Technology of the layered facade allows to vary the building appearance during the daytime. Glassed facades bear passages from the writings of notable authors who had been creating in Prague: Jiří Orten , Konstantin Biebl , Franz Kafka , Guillaume Apollinaire , Rainer Maria Rilke and Gustav Meyrink . Picture of an Angel-protector, inspired by

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