About the site
Three years after the first complex of houses for state employees was erected, a group of four residential buildings was completed in Zukalova and Křížkovského streets (now Gudrichova Street), again to the designs of Johann Kalitta from the Provincial Building Office. The two-storey houses, with attic flats under hipped roofs, were arranged in two irregularly shaped blocks. One consisted of houses nos. 1332–1334 enclosing a courtyard; house no. 1335 was separated from them by the access road to the courtyard.
Compared with Kalitta’s earlier complex, these houses were more decorative, drawing on Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Biedermeier, and Art Nouveau. The massing lacks symmetry, but displays a rich repertoire of bay windows with onion domes, risalits, closed balconies, undulating triangular gables with volutes, portals with fluted Corinthian columns, and window surrounds in the form of stucco curtains, and cartouche frames with decorative infill. Some of the applied features give the houses an almost Oriental character. The entrance door and the grilles to doors and windows were also given decorative treatment. Darker textured plaster on the façades contrasts with lighter, smoother panels above the windows and in the gables.
Plans are two- and three-tract, with the entrance hall and staircase to the upper floor always located in the centre. On either side are one- to three-room flats, with living rooms facing the street and service areas oriented towards the courtyard.
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