Slovak Radio
Inverted steel pyramid of the national broadcaster, with a concert hall and a vast pipe organ.
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This guide to the Slovak Radio building in Bratislava starts with the traffic on Mýtna Street and what the broadcaster did to keep it out of the concert hall. It follows three architects, Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling, from a nineteen-sixties design competition into a steel experiment in a country of concrete panels. Best heard on the pavement below the slanted flanks, looking up.
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