Register of modern architecture in Slovakia

Podnet na preskúmanie rozhodnutia KPÚ vo veci Polyfunkčného domu na Kamennom námestí v Bratislave SAVE SOZA . STOP DEMOLITION . RENOVATION FIRST Modernism Revisited 2026: International Conference on Architecture and Cultural Heritage

United Power Generation Banska Bystrica

dnešný názov: Stredoslovenské energetické závody š.p., RZ Banská Bystrica

original function
Administratíva
current function
administration
address
Švantnerova 9, Banská Bystrica, Banskobystrický kraj
architects
Bednárik František Eduard, Zraževský Vitalij
project
1938 (1. phase)
implementation
1941
status
existing

The power plant facility consists of three components: the main building, a residential section and an administrative addition that came later. The main building is a compact, five-storey high reinforced concrete structure with a triple-aisle layout. The structural skeleton allowed for a lighter, glazed ground level as well as for a typical rounded corners. The interior layout is fairly standard, with a spacious hall on the ground floor and general offices connected through a bright common hallway. Continuous vertical glazing of the side facade granted a unique character to the outer looks of the building. The residential building with one to three-room apartments is four-storey high, partly sunk in the grade. Expanded facility with a careful shaping of individual structural components is a typical representative of late modernism.

Bibliography:

KUBIČKOVÁ, Klára: Architektonické diela 20. storočia na Slovensku. Architektúra & Urbanizmus 34, 2000, 1 – 2, s. CLXXIV.
DULLA, Matúš – MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002. 512 s., tu s. 400.

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