Karel Hubáček (; 23 February 1924 – 25 November 2011) was a

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who designed the

Ještěd Tower Ještěd Tower () is a television transmitter on top of Mount Ještěd near Liberec in the Czech Republic. Measuring , it is made of reinforced concrete shaped in a "hyperboloid" form. The tower was designed by architect Karel Hubáček, w ...

and hotel atop the

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mountain near

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. Hubáček's best known work was the Ještěd Tower, which was constructed between 1966 and 1973. In 1969, the Ještěd Tower received the Perret Prize from the

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. In 2000, Czech architects named Hubáček's tower most successful domestic architectural work of the 20th century. In addition to the Ještěd Tower, Hubáček designed buildings throughout the Czech Republic. Czech architects named Hubáček the fourth most influential Czech architect of all time. He was the only living architect to place in the top ten in the same survey. Hubáček was born in

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, on 23 February 1924. He died in the

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on 25 November 2011, at the age of 87.

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