Hotel Sázava - Společenský dům , Zruč nad Sázavou Orbis Postcard with slides,Czechoslovakia 1968
In Czechosovakia in the mid 1960s, postcards were produced which included three colour slides or diapozitiv . Zruč nad Sázavou was designed at the end of the 1930s as a factory for the Bata concern in Zlin, which believed in both horizontal and vertical integration. The architect Miroslav Drofa was employed to design this industrial satellite town. The above building centre dates from the 1939 -1941 period, and the HOUSING from the same period followed the flat-roofed modernist sugar-cube style Drofa and his mentors pioneered in Zlin, and carried out elsewhere at other Bata towns such as Svit and Partizanske in Slovakia and Sezimovo Usti in the present day Czech republic.
Zruc nad Sazavou has a population of between 5000 and 5500.
This building centre shows the Hotel Sázava - the hotel and community centre at the centre of all Bat'a settlements.
Interestingly , the anti-establishment dissident underground Czech rock group , PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE , recorded the track Magor umravňuje publikum ve Zruči nad Sázavou - Magor moralises the audience here in Zruc nad Sazavou - Magor being their often jailed manager.
here on their 1972 LP Muž bez USÍ - man without ears (I think). More about the band PPOTU here
Hotel Sázava - Společenský dům , Zruč nad Sázavou Orbis Postcard with slides,Czechoslovakia 1968
In Czechosovakia in the mid 1960s, postcards were produced which included three colour slides or diapozitiv . Zruč nad Sázavou was designed at the end of the 1930s as a factory for the Bata concern in Zlin, which believed in both horizontal and vertical integration. The architect Miroslav Drofa was employed to design this industrial satellite town. The above building centre dates from the 1939 -1941 period, and the HOUSING from the same period followed the flat-roofed modernist sugar-cube style Drofa and his mentors pioneered in Zlin, and carried out elsewhere at other Bata towns such as Svit and Partizanske in Slovakia and Sezimovo Usti in the present day Czech republic.
Zruc nad Sazavou has a population of between 5000 and 5500.
This building centre shows the Hotel Sázava - the hotel and community centre at the centre of all Bat'a settlements.
Interestingly , the anti-establishment dissident underground Czech rock group , PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE , recorded the track Magor umravňuje publikum ve Zruči nad Sázavou - Magor moralises the audience here in Zruc nad Sazavou - Magor being their often jailed manager.
here on their 1972 LP Muž bez USÍ - man without ears (I think). More about the band PPOTU here