Czechia's Incredible 1960s Supervillain-Lair Hotel (And Why Its Architect Got Banned)

In 1973, a new hotel opened outside the city of Liberec, in what was then Czechoslovakia. And it looked like nothing anyone had seen before. So what's it like inside? How did it win one of the biggest prizes in architecture? And why was its designer banned from the official opening? I travelled to Liberec to find out more... INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/the.tim.traveller TWIT - https://twitter.com/TheTimTraveller FACE - https://www.facebook.com/TheTimTraveller/ WITH THANKS TO Milena Lánská / Hotel Ještěd - https://www.jested.cz/en MORE INFO Jiří Jiroutek / Fenomen Ještěd - https://fenomenjested.com/phenomenom-jested Petr Vorlík - https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/icomoshefte/article/view/75098/68771 "Building Of The Century" by visitliberec.eu - https://www.visitliberec.eu/en/vse-o-liberci/horsky-hotel-jested-stavba-stoleti/ Financial Times article on the building - https://www.ft.com/content/69a0a1f8-8060-11dd-99a9-000077b07658 2013 article by expats.cz talking about the planned restoration - https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/restoring-an-iconic-bar-to-its-retro-glory IMAGE CREDITS Antonín Novotný by Harry Pot / Dutch National Archives - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anton%C3%ADn_Novotn%C3%BD_1968.jpg Tuned Mass Damper from Taipei 101 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuned_mass_damper_-_Taipei_101_-_Wikimania_2007_0224.jpg Czech "tourists" - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expozice_podnik%C5%AF_%C4%8CSSR_1972a.jpg 1970s-era Hotel - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%A1rodn%C3%A1_kult%C3%BArna_pamiatka._Hotel_Morava,_Tatransk%C3%A1_Lomnica_WMP_19_Slovakia17.jpg 1970s Czech aeroplane by Lars Soderstrom - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSA_Tupolev_Tu-124_Soderstrom-3.jpg