Lost & Found – A Prague Guidebook
While cleaning the bookshelf the other day my mother and I came across a guidebook to Prague written in 1967. My mother wanted to throw it out because it was written in German and so […]
The Week That Was – (Part Three)
This week didn’t leave much time for exploring Bratislava. My mother and I were busy at home preparing for Easter and painting the flat. I also had a special visit from Istanbul which meant that […]
The Week that Was (Part Two)
This week included precious time spent with my mother, a visit to Bratislava’s Blue Church and to ÚĽUV – Bratislava’s Centre for Folk Art Production. Bratislava’s Old Town Hall is the oldest city hall in the country, dating back to the […]
Bratislava Street Art
Bratislava has a surprising amount of street art and I am not talking about graffiti. Yes, there is a difference between street art and graffiti. Street art is constructive, asks important questions, it takes a […]
How Slovakian Firm GutGut Transforms Concrete Communist Panelaks into Sleek Housing
Over 130,000 people in Bratislava live in prefabricated communist housing blocks called panelaks and most of them are located in a district of Bratislava called Peterzalka. I have mixed feelings about panelaks. My uncle lives in […]
The Week that Was – (Part One)
Presidential Palace Gardens, Medieval Streets & Communist Structures.
Bratislava Uncensored
Bratislava’s brutalist and communist-era architecture are hard to ignore. It’s part of Bratislava’s identity and part of its history that I, sadly, know very little about. I was only a toddler when my parents fled […]
