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The City of Prague’s integrated gravity sewerage system was designed in 1893 by the British expert William Heerlein Lindley (1853–1917), who was working at the time as a municipal engineer in Frankfurt am Main. He drew on two earlier such projects in this design, one by Jan Kaftan and James Hobrecht and the other by Josef Václavek and Vincenc Ryvola...
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The Renaissance core of what was originally a craft brewery and malt-house dates from the late 16th and early 17th century. In 1894–1897 Rudolf Cicvárek, a lawyer and merchant, had it converted to steam power, based on a project by builder Josef Rosenberg...
Franz Schmitt (1816–1883) ran a weaving and printing factory for woollen fabrics in Český Dub from 1843, and he gradually acquired and built other factories in Semily and in Zittau in Saxony, Germany. In 1860 he bought land near Semily at a bend in the Jizera River and built a cotton spinning mill there. This big project was coordinated by the experienced Swiss engineer Jacob Zollinger (1807–1894)...
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The brewery complex was built in 1839–1842 by Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796–1858), from a project designed by Matyáš Čermák (1779–1854), an engineer in the building office of the prince’s local estate. The two-storey buildings in the north wing housed the brewery and those in the south wing housed a malt house...
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The area of the town slaughterhouse was built by the town of Moravská Ostrava from the beginning of the 1880s, first by adapting and extending the inn near the cattle market. In 1890-1891, the abattoir received its first modern cold store, designed by the local builder Clemens Hladisch according to the project of the Brno engineering firm Brand & Lhuillier, and in 1893 a beef slaughterhouse building, which has not survived, was added...
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The mine was established in 1813 on the site of a medieval water-mining mine. In 1909 the mine reached a depth of 1,128 metres and had 32 levels. The main shaft building, Malakow No. 292, dates from 1879 and is the only one in the district to retain the steel structure of the mining tower. The mine complex consists of the former placer building...
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In 1882, Karl Bienert, Jr., who at the time owned the company of Karl Bienert & Sohn in Liberec, bought the cotton spinning mill of the Cordell Brothers in Bílý Potok (founded before 1862) and reconstructed it from plans designed by the builder Josef Neisser. In 1902, he modernised the mill’s equipment and processed worsted and vigogne yarn. On the night of 6 February 1913, the factory burned down...
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The history of Mlynica began in the 1960s with the establishment of a factory producing prefabricated building components from aerated concrete. Lightweight construction materials were produced here until the Velvet Revolution. After the factory ceased its original operations, the site was left abandoned and without further use. Two decades of neglect and time left their marks on the building's appearance...
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Jurkovič Heating Plant is one of the last surviving witnesses of the former Apollo refinery. This former industrial area is becoming part of Bratislava's new center, and the renovated Jurkovič Heating Plant serves as its cultural accent amidst the modern architecture of the surrounding Sky Park by Zaha Hadid buildings. The architectural design utilizes the free interior space to insert new independent structures, ...
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The granary in Jarovce was constructed according to a standardized design from 1954, developed by the Agroprojekt Bratislava design center. Built in 1956 under the designation "T7 – Granary 100 wag," it was designed to store grain from 100 wagons, accommodating 50 wagons in each of its two main wings. Its architectural form reflects the contemporary logistical methods of grain storage...
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Bratislava's SPILKA (fermentation plant) is the only surviving part of the historic STEIN brewery. Without exaggeration, it is one of Bratislava's iconic architectural landmarks, recognized by its characteristic dome, making it a city landmark. Today, it forms part of a new multifunctional block located in the central part of Bratislava...
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The Pradiareň building is part of the complex of the former Hungarian Thread Factory, established in 1900 by foreign companies Salcher & Richter and J. & P. Coats. Designed by Viennese structural engineer David Valentin Junk, the quarter's current name, Zwirn, originates from the original designation of the Hungarian Thread Factory (Zwirnfabrik, Magyar czérnagyár). The complex was constructed in several stages...
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The first gasworks producing town gas on the territory of present-day Slovakia was established in 1856 in Bratislava, at today's Kollárovo Square, to provide city lighting. Eighty years later, a new gasworks was constructed in Mlynské Nivy. It is within a preserved section of this 1936 gasworks complex that the Gas Museum was later established. The museum was founded by the state enterprise Slovenský plynárenský priemysel ...
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The Waterworks Museum is a specialized technical museum established in 2007 by the Bratislava Water Company, situated within the historic premises of Bratislava's first pumping station. Built in 1886 in Karlova Ves on the left bank of the Danube, this pumping station, together with a well on Sihoť Island and a reservoir near Bratislava Castle...
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The history of Csepel Works dates back to 1882, when the Weiss brothers, Berthold and Manfred, established a canned food manufacturing facility at Lövölde tér in the 7th district of Budapest. A few months later, the factory was relocated to Soroksári út, near the Cattle Slaughterhouse. During periods of free capacity, workers dismantled ammunition for the army...
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In Hungary, regular Medium Wave (MW) radio broadcasting started on 1 December 1925. A 2 kW Telefunken transmitter was set up in Csepel (the 21st district of Budapest) and transmitted on the 572 m wavelength.In 1927, the transmitter in Csepel was upgraded to 3 kW, and the same year, construction of a new 20 kW radio transmitter began in Lakihegy (Szigetszentmiklós)...
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Wekerle Estate is a rectangular-shaped garden suburb (approximately 1.3 km by 1.3 km) located in Kispest, the 19th district of Budapest. It is one of the finest examples of the Garden City Movement founded by Ebenezer Howard. The estate is named after Dr. Sándor Wekerle, the Prime Minister of Hungary, who initiated the construction of the workers’ estate using public funds in 1908. In 1908, a public invitation to tender was announced...
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The Liberty Bridge (Szabadság híd in Hungarian) was the third road bridge built in Budapest, inaugurated in 1896, the year of the Millennium celebrations. It was originally named Ferenc József híd (Franz Joseph Bridge) after Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, who inaugurated the bridge on 4 October 1896. The 333.6 m long, 20.1 m wide bridge is a cantilever bridge...
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Dorottya Udvar, one of the capital's most characteristic A-class office buildings, is located at the end of Bocskai út in the north-western corner of Kelenföld, Budapest. The 28,500 sqm office complex was built in the former military uniform factory in Kelenföld. The military uniform factory was probably built around 1918...
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In the mid-1840s, the Swiss ironfounder Ábrahám Ganz set up his foundry on the site of what is now Bem József Street. It was in this foundry that Ganz produced his patented, world-famous chilled cast railway wheels and grain grinding rollers, laying the foundations for the company's long-term success. Today, the building houses the Ábrahám Ganz Foundry Collection...
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The first gas works began operations in Budapest on the Pest side on December 23, 1856. Due to the ever-increasing household gas consumption in Budapest, the construction of a modern, high-capacity gas works became necessary by the turn of the twentieth century. For the location of the gas works, an estate in Óbuda was selected, as it had road, rail, and waterway connections...
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