Register of modern architecture in Slovakia

Modernism Revisited 2026: International Conference on Architecture and Cultural Heritage Architektúra povojnového modernizmu na Slovensku: identifikácia, hodnotenie a ochrana Reissue of the publication Bratislava – Atlas of Mass Housing

Red Cross building

original function
Zdravotníctvo
current function
administration
address
Vajanského 7, Nitra, Nitriansky kraj
architects
Gahura František Lydie
implementation
1931 (probably)
status
existing

The main architect of the Bat’a shoe corporation in Zlín, František L. Gahura, built two noteworthy works in Slovakia: a villa in Trenčín and the small regional headquarters of the Czechoslovak Red Cross in Nitra. The Functionalist motif of the glass-fronted semicircular staircase, though common elsewhere, is rare in Slovak architecture; here it is also matched with the unusual protruding glass entrance corner.

Bibliography:

DULLA, Matúš – MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002. 512 s., tu s. 369.

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