#Traffic facility #Brno #1949
Description
In Brno, Fuchs as a member and chief architect of the Architecture and Regulation Department of the Brno Building Authority planned a number of public buildings along the Brno's inner City ring, including a new bus station planned in 1948.
Fuchs planned a much bigger bus station, which was to be followed by three long covered platforms with vertical parking slots for busses as well. From the generous project was realised between the years 1949 until 1951 only one platform with elegant pillars made of prestressed concrete.
This project is a symbol for period of political changes. In 1948, the Czechoslovak communist planned a coup, resulting in a political takeover of the country. As a result, Fuchs lost his private architectural office, remained as the dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1948-49, 1951-52 and 1955-58, but was at the end forced to leave. The bus station is one of his first buildings from the Communist period in Czechoslovakia, with a still strong reference to the international modernism.
Description
In Brno, Fuchs as a member and chief architect of the Architecture and Regulation Department of the Brno Building Authority planned a number of public buildings along the Brno's inner City ring, including a new bus station planned in 1948.
Fuchs planned a much bigger bus station, which was to be followed by three long covered platforms with vertical parking slots for busses as well. From the generous project was realised between the years 1949 until 1951 only one platform with elegant pillars made of prestressed concrete.
This project is a symbol for period of political changes. In 1948, the Czechoslovak communist planned a coup, resulting in a political takeover of the country. As a result, Fuchs lost his private architectural office, remained as the dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1948-49, 1951-52 and 1955-58, but was at the end forced to leave. The bus station is one of his first buildings from the Communist period in Czechoslovakia, with a still strong reference to the international modernism.
