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The Slovak Radio Building

58 points by curtis 10y ago

keithpeter 10y ago
"Inside the building there is one concert hall with a large concert organ, and the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago, so the interior is being cared for, but it still looks like a socialist museum." Hold on... the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet. For example, my home venue... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Hall,_Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Hall,_Birmingham The building described in the OA looks wonderful! They should capitalise on it!
- privong 10y ago
  > the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet. I took the "still looks like a socialist museum" to be referring to the second part of the sentence: "the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago".
- TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
  The Soviet Union was always big on culture - often for nationalistic reasons. After Stalinism subsided, the USSR spent a small fortune promoting Russian culture, esp. classical music, at home and abroad. E.g. Warsaw in Poland was "gifted" a huge Palace of Culture and Science, which included a concert hall which was used for classical and pop concerts.
- merdreubu 10y ago
  >does not strike me as being especially Soviet Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union.
  - keithpeter 10y ago
    I stand corrected and reminded.
- Markoff 10y ago
  you should check out also UFO bridge in same city, interesting commie architecture and right next to it Hong Kong residential area of central Europe
finchisko 10y ago
Nice to see something from my country to appear on HN, apart from aeromobil and ESET Antivirus.
zkms 10y ago
It looks kinda like the Big Sight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bigsite_Tokyo2012.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bigsite_Tokyo2012.JPG
Xophmeister 10y ago
It looks like the Chinese pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai expo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_pavilion_at_Expo_2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_pavilion_at_Expo_2010
mathiasben 10y ago
Very cool! I've been working on getting the short wave radio working on my boat and one of the stations I've been excited to tune has been radio Slovak, neat to see their headquarters here. reminds me somewhat of this building near IAD airport - http://bit.ly/2oBIzpK http://bit.ly/2oBIzpK

58 points by curtis 10y ago

"Inside the building there is one concert hall with a large concert organ, and the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago, so the interior is being cared for, but it still looks like a socialist museum." Hold on... the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet. For example, my home venue... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Hall,_Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Hall,_Birmingham The building described in the OA looks wonderful! They should capitalise on it!

privong 10y ago
> the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet. I took the "still looks like a socialist museum" to be referring to the second part of the sentence: "the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago".
TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
The Soviet Union was always big on culture - often for nationalistic reasons. After Stalinism subsided, the USSR spent a small fortune promoting Russian culture, esp. classical music, at home and abroad. E.g. Warsaw in Poland was "gifted" a huge Palace of Culture and Science, which included a concert hall which was used for classical and pop concerts.
merdreubu 10y ago
>does not strike me as being especially Soviet Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union.
- keithpeter 10y ago
  I stand corrected and reminded.
Markoff 10y ago
you should check out also UFO bridge in same city, interesting commie architecture and right next to it Hong Kong residential area of central Europe

finchisko 10y ago

Nice to see something from my country to appear on HN, apart from aeromobil and ESET Antivirus.

zkms 10y ago

It looks kinda like the Big Sight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bigsite_Tokyo2012.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bigsite_Tokyo2012.JPG

Xophmeister 10y ago

It looks like the Chinese pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai expo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_pavilion_at_Expo_2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_pavilion_at_Expo_2010

mathiasben 10y ago

Very cool! I've been working on getting the short wave radio working on my boat and one of the stations I've been excited to tune has been radio Slovak, neat to see their headquarters here. reminds me somewhat of this building near IAD airport - http://bit.ly/2oBIzpK http://bit.ly/2oBIzpK