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The House of Culture in Liptovský Mikuláš was built in the 1980s as part of the construction of a new cultural-administrative town centre. The House of Culture together with the building of the listed synagogue in the north and the Army Garrison House in the south formed a trio of functionally interconnected solitaires. The synagogue was renovated into a multi-purpose ceremony and concert hall, the Army Garrison House included a cinema and The ROH House of Culture was designed as a cultural and social facility able to meet a number of different requirements.

The core of the building is a multi-purpose hall on the elevated ground floor, connecting to the generous entrance area. The club spaces are accessed by separate staircases from the entrance vestibule and form a ring around the multi-purpose hall with a stage on the third floor. The wide variability of the hall was provided by the patent of retractable floors.

The façade design alternates bold verticals of profiled walls with stone cladding and areas of glazing. The stone cladding partly penetrates the spatially structured interior. The interior spaces are dominated by a structured ceiling with integrated lighting and original furnishing elements made in a combination of chrome and glass. The most remarkable works of art are a colourful relief by Milan Gromnica at the entrance to the puppet stage and an art protis curtain by Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková.

Bibliography:

URSÍNY, Daniel – GREGOR, Karol: Dom kultúry ROH v Liptovskom Mikuláši. Projekt 28, 1986, 9, s. 18 – 24.