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A breathtaking book about the unexplored treasures of Slovakia
Čierne diery—our favorite community repping Slovak industrial architecture and design—has come out with a gigantic, 400-page publication. The book, featuring abandoned mining towns, reservoirs, and crumbling country mansions (as well as their wider surroundings), is also worth taking a look at for those who don’t speak the
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A guy from MOME who brings us the monumental ceramics of Slovakia
Mátyás Zagiba launched an Instagram account with the name LEN HLINA, or “Clay Only” to promote the unfairly forgotten building-decorating ceramics.
Mátyás Zagiba, a second-year ceramics student at MOME, came to Budapest from Jovice, a Slovakian village with barely eight hundred inhabitants. In March of this year, during the pandemic,
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The city as a gallery | Čierne diery
If you thought Piešťany primarily known for its thermal spas could only give remedy to those suffering from rheumatic symptoms, you couldn’t be more wrong. Here’s a book that will prove that unjustly abandoned public statues also deserve the spotlight!
We have been keeping an eye on Čierne
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Visual storytelling through the eyes of Daniela Olejniková
Text and image, book and illustration are closely intertwined: neither is subordinate to the other, they acquire their full meaning together, in their relationship with one another. We asked Slovak illustrator Daniela Olejniková about children’s books, creation and visual storytelling. Interview!
You are an illustrator who works in several
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Architecture of Care | The forgotten baths of Slovakia
The thermal baths extremely popular in the Socialist era have been transformed
or disappeared completely by today. A photographer and an architect set out to
explore the forgotten baths of Slovakia to show us that our built heritage
deserves some care, too.
Photographer Andrea Kalinová and architect Martin Zaiček have
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Slovakia’s built heritage | Čierne diery
Čierne diery promoting the built heritage of Slovakia grew out to be one of the
most popular initiatives of the country in only a few years. Old industrial
buildings, factories, rural mansions and tunnels that we wouldn’t find on any
maps even if we tried – they explore them and
