AI - DESIGN = Architecture Interior DESIGN is one of the leading architectural studios in Czech Republic founded by Eva Jiricna & Petr Vagner in 1999. The studio provides a comprehensive services including the design of new buildings and public spaces as well as reconstructions, bridges, detailed interiors, exhibitions, products and furniture. Over more than two decades the studio has completed projects including multipurpose auditoriums, hotels, university buildings, and many others. Among the most known are projects such as the Orangery in Prague’s Castle, Hotel Josef in Prague – the first design hotel in Middle and Eastern Europe, refurbished St Anne‘s Church for Václav Havel, Cultural and Congress Centre in Zlin, University building in Zlin, Sky Barrandov in Prague and most recently The Educational Complex of the Tomas Bata University in Zlin. The studio has won numerous international awards and its work is regularly published in magazines, books and periodicals. Its clients include major corporate and public organizations. AI - DESIGN has a strong collaborative track record working closely with clients and other members of the design team, including engineers, landscape architects, cost consultants and urban designers.
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Studio AI – DESIGN (Architektura Interiér DESIGN) ve svém oboru působí od roku 1999, kdy ho založili Eva Jiřičná a Petr Vágner. Poskytuje komplexní služby od návrhů nových veřejných i soukromých budov, mostů, rekonstrukcí až po kompletní návrhy interiérů, výstav, nábytku i dalších unikátních předmětů. Mezi realizace patří mimo jiné i první designový hotel ve střední a východní Evropě Hotel Josef v Praze, dále nová oranžerie na Pražském hradě, rekonstrukce kostela svaté Anny v Praze nadace VIZE 97 Dagmar a Václava Havlových, bytový komplex Sky Barrandov, Kongresové centrum Zlín a vedle Univerzitního centra též nová Fakulta humanitních studií Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně. Za své realizace obdržel ateliér mnohá ocenění v zahraničí i u nás, včetně Grand Prix Obce architektů.
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Eva Jiricna Founder and Director of the AI - DESIGN is a Czech born architect based in London. She studied engineering and architecture until 1962, gaining an MA at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. She moved to London in 1968, working as an architect with the Greater London Council. A year later, she became an associate in the Louis de Soissons Partnership, and later joined Richard Rogers, before forming her multidisciplinary practice, Eva Jiricna Architects, in 1982, operating until 2017. In Prague she opened the office AI - DESIGN with the Czech partner Petr Vagner in 1999. Eva became well known for the interiors of shops and residential projects and mainly glass staircases but also for her work in Victoria and Albert Museum, Canada Water Bus Station, Leicester Library, Orangery at Prague’s Castle and many others. Her contribution to architecture and design has been recognised with many prestigious awards, including the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) and Commander of the British Empire (CBE). She has been elected a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, made an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and she has been honoured with Doctorates and Professorships by many Universities. When she won the 2013 Jane Drew Prize for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture, she was described by judges Zaha Hadid and Rafael Vinoly as ‘incredibly influential’ and ‘extraordinary’. In 2018 Eva won the Lifetime Achievement Medal at the London Design Festival.
Petr Vagner Founder and Managing Director of the AI - DESIGN studio co-ordinates and provides the guidance for clients, investors including design development and contract documentation. Over the 25 years cooperating with Eva and being the head of the architectural office he possesses an irreplaceable archive of experience. He has completed projects including hotels, university buildings, multipurpose auditoriums. Public and private projects include new buildings, reconstructions, bridges, exhibitions, interiors and design of unique objects. Petr received the Grand Prix for Interior in 2007. In 2014 designed and exhibited his table collection at the Fiera del Mobile in Milano. www.designium.cz
The professional AI - DESIGN team of architects and designers include Eva Jiřičná, Petr Vágner, Jura Bečička, Veronika Gabrlíková, Filip Gottschalk, Oleksandra Tsesko, Hana Vočková, Petra Svobodová.
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