Tugendhat – A gem threatened with collapse

There are some wounds that even time cannot heal. Brno's villa Tugendhat, an admired work by the star of modern architecture Mies van der Rohe, which is visited by thousands of people from all over the world annually, is slowly falling apart. The only „new“ Czech house on the UNESCO list has been waiting for reconstruction for years. According to the promises of the Brno mayor, cement mixers were to start spinning this year, but repairs were postponed again. It is not only the fans of this interesting house who are annoyed, but also the descendants of the original owners, who gave up their rights to restitution some time ago because of the promise of the town to reconstruct the villa immaculately. Now, all of them are asking with uncertainty, if Brno will manage to reconstruct the villa. A look behind the scenes indicates that the town hall's crew still does not quite understand that an exceptional house needs exceptional care.

„It's like a boulder that we keep rolling in front of us,“ said Deputy Mayor Ladislav Macek, who is responsible for the villa's reconstruction, uttering a sigh in his office. A smiling politician, whose office is decorated with replicas of weapons from the Wild West, admits that he would be happy to shake off the reconstruction of the famous house as quickly as possible. „But it's constantly being delayed,“ he shrugs his shoulders. In…