Some Communist-era Czech apartment blocks may become protected monuments

Monument curators are looking to prevent alterations to some Communist-era prefab apartment blocks in northern Bohemia, possibly by designating them as protected monuments.

Buildings under consideration include some in Most, a centre of mining, which have a unique feature: architects accounted for wind patterns to ensure inhabitants had the cleanest air possible.

Most prefabricated buildings in the Czech Republic, known as paneláks, were built between the 1960s and 1980s. Today more than three million Czechs live in them.