Public Space
Squares, parks, riverbanks and the quality of everyday city life.
Upper Žižkov backs a 30 km/h zone, but splits by age over giving up parking for pavement
Praha 3 has published its consultation on the next traffic-calmed zone: 71 percent of respondents in favour, works expected in 2027. The argument is at the corners, where wider pavements cost parking spaces.
Painted Bicycles Instead of Cycle Lanes: Prague's Gentle Fix for the Dvorecký Bridge Pavements
Months after the bridge opened with cyclists and pedestrians sharing its footways, the city has added non-binding pictograms by the tram and bus stops. The separate cycle lanes it was designed with were dropped by the city's cycling commission a year ago.
The Ládví Frog Comes Back as a Replica Cast From the Sculptor's Own Model, This Time Under Cameras
Prague 8 load-tested the rebuilt fountain by the Ládví pool on 8 October, and water runs under Vincenc Vingler's bronze for the first time in decades. The original was torn off by vandals in 2007 and stolen for good in 2008. The replica stays in the town hall until the security system is installed.
Prague Starts the Faculty of Arts Memorial With a Brief, Not a Competition
Councillors approved a working group on 5 October to write the brief for an architectural and artistic competition on Jan Palach Square. Bereaved families and survivors will take part. Whether there is a competition at all will be decided after the brief exists — and the square is being rebuilt at the same time.
Prague Writes Down What a Tram Line Should Look Like
IPR and DPP have published a design standard covering the surfaces, stops and street furniture of a network spread over nearly 1.25 million square metres. It is a recommendation to designers rather than a regulation, and it is meant to be amended chapter by chapter.
Praha 2 Will Pave the Lawn Tourists Stand On to Photograph the Dancing House
A CZK 35 million redesign of Jiráskovo náměstí over the next two years replaces part of the ruined grass with paving, restores Vlastislav Hofman's Cubist fountain to working order and moves the Jirásek monument.
Prague 1 Answers the Kampa Rumours Line by Line: No Hidden Design, No Stage, No Cycle Highway
With the competition authority's decision final since 10 September, the argument about Kampa has moved from procurement to what the scheme actually contains. The district has published a point-by-point rebuttal and a list of things that will not be built.
The Winning Design Takes 15 Percent of the Parking off Náměstí Svatopluka Čecha. A Third of the Room Wanted More
Prague 10 has published the record of the second public hearing on ra15's competition-winning scheme for the Vršovice square. It puts the parking cut at about 15 percent — and notes that just over a third of those present, six of them living on the square, raised a hand for a deeper one.
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.