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Goethe Institut Prag

Goethe Institut Prag

Tags: transportation interiors politic lift
Creator: alexander (Alexander Honzák)
Submitted: 2010-11-28
Recorded: 2010-11-27
Licence: Creative Commons Licence
Download: 101127152920.mp3

Interieur and lift of the Goethe Institut at Masarykovo nábřeží in the jugenstill building of the former First General Insurance Bank erected in 1905. The palace was designed by architect prof. Jiří Stibral and the fasade made by Ladislav Šaloun. Till 1989 was here a residency of the Embassy of The Democratic Republic of East Germany and since 1993 Prague departement of the Goethe Institut.