Steven Holl Architects, in collaboration with Marcela Steinbachová and SKUPINA Studio, have won first place in the international competition in Czech Republic.
Holocaust remembrance site in Terezin is crumbling
Under the Nazis, the entire town of Terezin was a Jewish ghetto that served as a transit camp during the Holocaust. Today, there is much to be done to keep the memory of the town alive.
Inside Dresden Barracks, the largest and most damaged building in the main Theresienstadt fortress
Jiri Hofman bought the gravedigger s house, right by the cemetery, for his young family. It is, he argued, a good house in an isolated location. The proximity to the dead does not bother him, he added they are omnipresent in Terezin (which the Germans once called Theresienstadt) anyway.