Apartment House Center
The Apartment House Center located in the center house number 4 on the street Běhounská is associated with prominent personalities of Czech modern history. First there lived prominent Czechoslovak resistance, both the first and also the second, there were also representatives of the First Republic's intelligence.
House for Běhounska 4 is mainly famous as the residence of significant functionalist architect Ernst Wiesner. The architect is uniquely important also signed on the face of the city of Brno, but also other cities. Ernst Weisner lived in an apartment with her mother Bertha Wiesner and his siblings, who, like their father engaged primarily in the resistance. |
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Ernst Wiesner clearly defined and set the direction it is moving at a later time brno modern functionalist architecture. As was the case for example in the construction of the now defunct Café Esplanade Roosveltova on the street. Input passed to Ernest Wiesner Brno coffeehouse Alois Strompf. | |
The café was truly unique and beautiful building, which gained its fame unique glass dome that perfectly illuminate the entire space. But Cafe was also linked with the fate of the Jewish community during the Second World War, eventually was heavily damaged by bombing and with the whole block gave way to the construction of Janáček Theatre. |