The Emaus Monastery I was just speaking about...

Some offices for the city council, in Prague 2, in the park of the Emaus monastery...

Waiting for the tram to go home tonight...

On the other side of the previous buildings...

New office buildings on the river bank, in the center...there is still a lot of space for further development there, part of which was kept some time ago to built sport facilities in case of Olympic Games... nowadays it would be crazy to settle it there!

They tend to cover the scaffoldings with huge plastic panels now, which is one more opportunity to display adverts and get money from it for the reconstruction...It's so much nicer without.

Prague Market, end of the day, where the vegetable market used to be...

Future "business park" in Holesovice... it's a steam mill complex from the beginning of the 20th century that is being reconstructed, quite nicely I think!

I went to the edge of the city today to buy a piece of furniture in the worlwide known swedish shop. There are two of them in Prague, each at a terminus of the metro line B, the yellow one.

Inside the museum of modern and contemporary art

Contemporary architecture in Nove Mesto... How to recognize a czech contemporary building? It's blue.

From the building where tourists musn't go :)

I really like the light given by the evening sun...

which one do you like best? apparently they can't decide :)

What I always liked in Prague is that ornament is so much present in architecture, even in more recent buildings...

Prague market again, after the working hours...

Tennis stadium on the Stvanice Island... this island is pretty big, and is basically a green park with old sports facilities. I heard there was even a swimming pool before the 2002 flood...it could be really nice with a little renovation and care! Nowadays it's pretty dead, except for the skate park and occasionnal festivals

Compared to Grenoble, the city where I lived before, Prague is really blind-friendly. A lot of traffic lights beep differently for green and red pedestrian lights, there are different reliefs on the pavement to indicate where the crossings are, and the metro flooring also sports this feature. And some bus stations, like here, have some braille writing.
All of this isn't everywhere, but it's still something.

A view from and of the Schwarzenberg Palace, a mid-16th century building built from the union of four noble houses, on the castle's square. Covered with renaissance sgraffito, it had housed along the centuries diverse functions and has been renovated several times.

Old stadium and aeration tower for the top of the Strahov hill, right in the center of Prague...

gloomy bath

ok, that wasn't the best day to make you like my favorite swimming-pool through pictures... The outdoor pool is open and heated all-year-round, and it's so big that there's always enough space to swim, even on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

a bit of grass

A new small public "garden" has risen in Prague 1 these days... they're putting the final touches to the shading structures, if you were wondering what these grey pilars are for.

scenic espresso

This can be translated as "scenic espresso"... besides the funny term, it makes me think of all these "point of view" and labelled places where tourists are told to take a picture from to be assured to get the best image. If I want to bring the trademarked view home, I'd just buy a book or a postcard...

but they are real windows

In the historical center, plain facades with so little relief are pretty rare...

mixité

So, in the Old Times there weren't these urban regulations to say where-to-build-what-up-to-which-height, and everything is still nicely standing together. I say, maybe we should learn something from it.

maltese glimpse

An Order of Malta church in Kampa, during a walk across the city today...

just a yellow house

I'm on the Tourist Circuit these days...it's not long since I've last been there to show some visitors around, but a lot of things have already changed. Not the same shops where I expect them to be, more expensive visit tickets, food not as good as I remembered...

pub scenes

Taken in the corridor of a "pub" (how do you translate hospoda?) in the too-much-ignored district of Karlin.

another bridge

One of the most known sight of Prague is its Charles Bridge, the oldest, but there are plenty of other ones all around that are worth of interest too...

arrival

I had to go to the airport today... I was actually happy to do so because I had planned to take a picture of this sign for a while. The airport has been recently renovated and extended, it boasts a whole new terminal now, but the sign stayed (yay! )