Koliště 5

This house is striking for its architecture, but it is even more eyecatching, because next to it are almost exclusively houses of historicism. Unfortunately, the house is located on a main arterial road, so the location and the balconies are certainly not at all well suited for using them.

The main facade faces southwest. The architectural gem are the balconies, angled in front of the flats. The wall to the flat is always set back on the right-hand side, making the balcony shape triangular. A kind of lattice serves as a railing. Casement windows and a balcony doors are part of each balcony. What appears to be a slanted balcony to the street is explained by the floor plan of the house. It is situated on the main street with a slight curve. The balcony walls form angles of 90° in the flats. In order for the flats in the house to be approximately the same size, the house is longer on the courtyard side in the western area than in the east.

The Krystal in Luhačovice is similar in its architectural solution. In Brno, however, no small windows to the neighbouring balcony were used, which certainly makes the balconies in Brno more pleasant for the tenants to use them.

The building material is not known to us, it is assumed to be a reinforced concrete construction.

The cladding of the ground floor zone is purely a decision of the current shop owners.

Although there is an excellent website about architecture in Brno by BAM, the building cannot be found on their site. The Czech National Institute of Monuments lists the building, but the year of construction, architect and developer are not known. It is noted there that the building is designed in the functionalist style, which also suggests that it was built in the 1930s or 1940s. The building received its protection as a monument as early as 1958.