Public Space
Squares, parks, riverbanks and the quality of everyday city life.
Náplavka's New Benches Took Twelve Years and One Prototype Left Out in the Weather
Twenty-seven oak seating arrangements are going in along Rašínovo nábřeží, bolted to steel frames set in concrete so the Vltava can wash over them. The contract is 4.121 million crowns before VAT and the material was chosen after a single prototype was left untreated for eight and a half years.
An Art Competition Opens for a Plaque on the Building Where the Roma Transports Were Organised
Živá paměť and the Academy of Fine Arts want a design for Bartolomějská 10 from artists under 35 by 21 November. A six-member jury including descendants of survivors will judge it.
A Firm That Never Bid Held Kampa Up for Months. The Competition Authority Has Now Dismissed It
ÚOHS has confirmed Prague 1's tender and the decision is final, so the district can sign with Konsorcium park KAMPA at 51,899,816 crowns excluding VAT — about 16.7 million under the budget it had approved.
Prague 10 Now Sends Someone to Walk the Malešice Building Sites Every Day
After a 10 September meeting with the transport company, the water utility and the Počernická tram contractors, the district has put a staff member on the ground daily, extracted direct contacts and promised a single website with every schedule on it. If new contaminants turn up in the spoil, work stops.
Parking or Planting: Prague 10 Calls a Third Meeting on Náměstí Svatopluka Čecha
Two summer meetings drew about 75 and 40 people and produced a split the architects now have to resolve — more greenery against keeping the parking. A third session comes in the autumn, and heritage protection of the views to St Wenceslas already limits what can be planted in the middle.
Water Returns to the Kranner Fountain After an Eighteen-Month Restoration Begins
Prague 1 has started work on the Monument to Emperor Francis I on Smetanovo nábřeží. A retendered contract went to Agentura „Jan Zrzavý“ at 16.9 million crowns before VAT — some 45 per cent under the estimate — and includes repairing the water technology so the fountain runs again.
A Derelict Strip by Nádraží Holešovice Opens as Spot Holešovice
CZK 6.5m has turned the ground between Plynární and Vrbenského into an adventure playground, a sports yard and a rest area — the third such conversion in Praha 7 this year, and the district's own staff helped build it.
Prague 7 Paints Three Streets Around Its Holešovice Schools, With a Fourth Due in September
Rajská, Plynární and Jablonského were repainted over the summer holidays under the district's asfalt art programme. Antonínská, the link between Strossmayerovo náměstí and Vltavská, is next.
Twenty Months On, Žofín Still Has the Wrong Tenant
Prague 1 awarded the riverside palace to a new operator at double the rent in September 2024. The old tenant has not moved out, and in June an appellate court sent the eviction case back to be heard again by a different judge.
Three Thousand Kilometres of Lost Paths: IPR Maps What Prague Could Simply Reopen
A new IPR study finds more than 3,000 km of vanished historical routes in Prague and its metropolitan area — and more than half of them are still municipally owned. Mayors got the material in June.
Park Maniny Starts This Year: Prague Digs Down to Let the Vltava Back In
Fifty-six hectares between Hlávkův Bridge and the Libeňské kosy become a flood park by 2035. The central move is lowering ground that was raised with spoil from the metro.
Prague Was Built to Cool Itself, and Then Forgot How
Passages, arcades, courtyards and palace gardens were climate infrastructure before anyone called it that — and the city's newest districts are quietly rebuilding them.
Six Years On, Prague's Priority Projects Have Split Into Two Groups
A progress check on the schemes CAMP put on display in 2020 finds bridges opened and tunnels being dug — alongside brownfields still waiting on a study.