Expo 58 - Praha Restaurant

Short microdoc by Rory Wilmer without commentary looking at the Expo 58 Praha Restaurant.

The Czechoslovakian presentation at the prestigious exhibition Expo 58 in Brussels opened in April 1958, came as a big surprise. A country that hadnt yet fully recovered from the terror of Stalins era, introduced a massive quantity of art, industrial items and ideas.

The restaurant, designed by architects Frantisek Cubr, Josef Hruby and Zdenek Pokorny, became a part of the Czechoslovak Exhibition Pavilion at the Worlds Fair Expo 1958. The first-prize winner restaurant was transported to Prague in 1960 and it started operating in Letenske Sady in 1961. A remarkable fact is that the restaurant was built above baroque cellars with a cross vault from the 17th century.


More info:

http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/extra/years_ending_in_8_/expo/index.html

http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/extra/years_ending_in_8_/expo/restaurant_as_a_symb...

http://www.expo58.info/en/

http://www.praha7.cz/About-Prague-7/Places-of-interest/ARCHITECTURE/area1215

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• documentary
• expo 58
• prague
• world fair
• Praha Restaurant
• design
• architecture

[hr987654]

Great. Here in Belgium there are remnants of Expo 58 everywhere. There's for instance a swimming pool in a town nearby, which used to be a pavillion at the Expo.

Is this just the restaurant we're seeing in the video or the entire pavillion? Looks big and in good shape.

Is the restaurant still functioning?

[STAGMAG]

It's just the restaurant. Up until the late 90's it was in a bad state. Neglected by decades of communist mis-rule and neglect. Now a major advertising company uses it as their HQ in Prague.

[I967]

fantasticka stavba....uzasny exemplar modernej architektury z polovice storocia....keby som mal na to prachy, tak to od tych reklamnych kupim a dam do povodneho stavu aj s tym napisom, ak tam este je, musim sa tam ist zajtra pozriet :) a taktiez by som zrestauroval barrandovske terasy...