The restoration of the Secessionist Löw-Beer villa will be designed by the firm Arch.Design

Brno - The project documentation for the restoration of the Art Nouveau Löw-Beer villa in the prestigious Brno district of Černá Pole will be prepared by the Brno architectural studio Arch.Design. CTK learned this from the Information System on Public Contracts. The cost of producing the repair plan for the villa next to the famous Tugendhat villa is two million crowns. The company was selected from a total of eight candidates.
    The Art Nouveau building has so far housed a youth residence. The South Moravian Region announced last year that it wants to use the Löw-Beer villa for an exhibition on the Art Nouveau style, the textile industry in Brno, and the family of the original owners. The region aims to obtain repair funds in the tens of millions of crowns from the European Union.
    The region is also considering that the Löw-Beer villa and the Tugendhat villa could form a single visitor unit in the future, and therefore wants to synchronize the repairs of both buildings.
    The Tugendhat villa is currently being restored with the assistance of European funds; Brno has received a subsidy that covers most of the expenses amounting to 156 million crowns.
    The Löw-Beer villa could theoretically become a new entrance space to the Tugendhat villa. It is located closer to the city center on the busy Drobného street opposite Lužánky park. Visitors would pass through the Löw-Beer villa and ascend to the Tugendhat villa through the gardens in the courtyard.
    Both buildings once formed a loosely connected whole. The parents of Greta Tugendhat lived in the Löw-Beer villa, who provided her with the upper part of the garden with a beautiful view of Brno for the construction of a new house for her family. At that time, there was no fence separating the gardens of both villas, as is the case today.
    The Löw-Beer villa was built in the Art Nouveau style between 1903 and 1904 by the Brno textile industrialist Moritz Fuhrmann. His sons sold the house in 1913 to the factory owner Alfred Löw-Beer.
    The company Arch.Design, founded in 1993, is also preparing a new zoning plan for Brno and designing a new entrance area for the Brno zoo.