The renovation of the Bratislava city villa combined the new with the traditional

The original urban villa on Mudroňova Street in Bratislava was completed in 1943. In the 1990s, it underwent extensive reconstruction and conversion into an administrative building. Until recently, it served as an embassy. It was not a building of significant architectural quality, and over the years, it gradually lost even the little that would be considered valuable today. The design for the reconstruction was prepared by the successful Bratislava architect Ing. arch. Ilja Skoček in collaboration with Ing. arch. Igor Černý, Ing. arch. Petr Kožušek, and Ing. arch. Danica Ščepková between 2015 and 2016, with the actual reconstruction taking place between 2016 and 2017. Today, the reconstructed villa houses a law firm.

The complex reconstruction required a comprehensive redesign of the layout and operation of the house. By relocating the main entrance from the stairwell to the northwestern section of the house, a representative entrance space with a height of more than four meters was created. The main double-pitched staircase is directly accessible from the hall with the reception. This intervention significantly impacted the street view as well. The originally "flat" wall received pronounced articulation and an adequate expression that skillfully complements the rest of the facade. Besides the new shape on the villa's front, from the street perspective, the new addition that replaced the original hipped roof is clearly distinguishable. The architect replaced the original facade's high order and vertical segments with horizontal lines of aluminum slats. The glass-set-back floor with a panoramic view features an extensive rooftop terrace oriented to the southwest.

The reconstruction represents an interesting connection between the new and the original building substance, and the resulting form includes (unusual for Ilja Skoček's work) historicist references. A significant new element is the new cornice that delineates the upper termination of the original building, evoking representative structures from the grand styles of the past while simultaneously dividing two worlds - the classic one, which in the lower part of the villa with traditional materials stems from the building's substance, and the new independent technical element of the addition, which acknowledges that it belongs to a different ideological environment from a different period.