The Golden Angel(Czech: Zlatý Anděl) is an administrative complex situated in Prague. The designer was French architect Jean Nouvel.[1]
The structure is located in the immediate vicinity of The Angel Crossroad (Křižovatka Anděl) which was named after The Golden Angel's Pharmacy (Lékárna U Zlatého Anděla). The pharmacy as well as its symbol - gilded statue of an angel - was demolished in 1980 to make a room for new subway station.
Origin
Nouvel started The Golden Angel project in 1994. The construction was launched five years later and the complex was completed in November 2000.[1] The exclusive investor of the building is the ING Real Estate company.
Picture of an Angel-protector, inspired by a Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire, looks down upon the golden Angel crossroads, floating among clouds.
A unique technology has been developed for portraying clouds and the Angel. Graphics is printed on an advert foil and cut into millimetre-sized dots, which are stuck onto the facade in a density of 80,000/m2. Number of dots on the complex is reaching 150 millions; the printing and cutting process ran uninterruptedly for over 7 months.