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Revitalization of the Slovak broadcasting building
Bekeš, Štefan
The topic of this contribution is the revitalization of the Slovak Broadcasting Building in Bratislava. The objective of this study is to seek a new functional use for the site and to integrate it into its wider surroundings and to treat the building as a unique monument which documents the architecture of its time. The aim is to create an integral whole incorporated into the city organism. Over the last 30 years, information, telecommunications and broadcasting technologies have gone through tremendous miniaturization and advancements; for this reason, large parts of the building have become unused. After the administrative merging of the Slovak Television and Radio, there was a great opportunity to find this appropriate new organization. In this project, I tried to show that the Slovak Radio Building would be the most appropriate for this common use and that it proved to be sufficient to assumptions, specifications and equipment. Taking into account the architectural value of the building (as an icon of modernism from the second half of the 20th century) I tried to define identical elements worthy of strict construction of monument protection and appropriate modification of the function, reconstruction, and rehabilitation. I tried to include a new feature - television - to the complex operating system such as radio, and even managed to properly integrate it into the park and amenities, so that this object has become an integral part of its broader urban neighbourhood. Implementation of appropriate materials managed to create a unique complex of buildings that cannot be repeated anywhere else in the world.
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