Zlatý andel - Smíchov, Praha, CZ
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The Golden Angel (Czech: Zlatý Andel) is an administrative complex situated in Prague. The designer was French architect Jean Nouvel.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/13/2017
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"The Golden Angel (Czech: Zlatý Andel) is an administrative complex situated in Prague. The designer was French architect Jean Nouvel.
Situated at the crossroad which was named after The Golden Angel's Pharmacy (Lékárna U Zlatého Andela). 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 the complex was completed in November 2000. 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: Jirí Orten, Konstantin Biebl, Franz Kafka, Guillaume Apollinaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Gustav Meyrink."
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Picture of an Angel-protector, inspired by a Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire, looks down upon the golden Angel crossroads, floating among clouds.