Register of modern architecture in Slovakia

Architektúra povojnového modernizmu na Slovensku: identifikácia, hodnotenie a ochrana Reissue of the publication Bratislava – Atlas of Mass Housing 100 Years of Paluš!

Western-Slovakian electric power plant

Správna a obytná budova Západoslovenských elektrární

current function
administration
address
Pražská 25, Bratislava
architects
Jurkovič Dušan Samuel, Weinwurm Friedrich, prestavba a nadstavba Dušan Jurkovič
developer
Jozef Berny, prestavba Hlavaj – Palkovič – Uličný, ďalšia prestavba Anton Titl
builder
Západoslovenské elektrárne
project
1927
implementation
1928
status
existing

Originally conceived as a three-storey building, the office spaces occupied lower two floors while the top floor was residential. Window openings were the principal language of expression of this otherwise purist white architecture. The varying shapes and apparently random spacing of windows corresponding to the interior layout only were proofs of affinity to ideas of F. Weinwurm and the functionalism or purism of A. Loos. The house had a flat roof, emphasized with a simple cantilevered ledge. Later on, the building was extended in one floor and received a red ceramic cladding. That resulted in a fairly traditional appearance of the building, even though the original shapes and spacing of the windows was preserved. In 1990-ties, there was yet another floor addition. The building is still being used by the Slovak Power Generation today.

Bibliography:

ŠLACHTA, Štefan: Fridrich Weinwurm – architekt Novej doby. Bratislava, SAS 1993, nestránkované, 71 s., tu s. 45.
BOŘUTOVÁ-DEBNÁROVÁ, Dana: Dušan Samo Jurkovič. Bratislava, Pallas 1993. 252 s.
DULLA, Matúš – MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002. 512 s., tu s. 91, 97, 344.