Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:45:40 +0200https://english.radio.cz/initiative-seeks-safeguard-karlovy-varys-controversial-architectural-ikon-hotel-8219410© 2026 Radio Prague International Karlovy Vary’s Hotel Thermal was recently, as it regularly is, the backdrop for Central Europe’s biggest film festival. The complex was designed, outside and in, specifically for the film festival in the West Bohemian spa town. But the controversial 1970s architectural work of the husband and wife team of Vladimír Machonin and Věra Machoninová is showing its age with its owner, the state, blowing hot and cold about its future. That has prompted the granddaughter and grandson of the architects to step in. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/thermal5.jpg?timestamp=1590582743 https://english.radio.cz/initiative-seeks-safeguard-karlovy-varys-controversial-architectural-ikon-hotel-8219410 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9