Holešovice Interwar Area Ferra in Danger
The issue of tall buildings and the vulnerable Prague skyline has been mentioned many times in the recent past. However, amidst the discussions about the Pankrác plain, other currently affected locations are somewhat forgotten. One of them is undoubtedly Holešovice.
After the increase in building heights at the foot of the Libeň Bridge, the insatiable construction market's attention turned to other attractive and relatively accessible plots, especially local industrial areas. In one space, successful, refined conversions (gas meter factory, steam mills, DOX, M Factory...) clash with enormous pressure for the yield of plots.
Longtime residents have thus been isolated from the banks of the Vltava River by a wall of new apartment buildings called Prague Marina in Holešovice Harbor; the skyline of the neighborhood is newly dominated by the A7 high-rise building in the brewery complex; two one-hundred-and-fifty-meter (! ) skyscrapers on the site of the demolished Tesla factory are also in the discussion phase, and excessively generous construction is planned in the Bubny railway area (Orco), which, despite the unusual overall size of the plot, necessitated the controversial removal of several valuable, recently listed structures from the list of cultural monuments and the subsequent demolition order.
Another example of disregard for cultural heritage and a notorious slap in the face of friendly Holešovice will likely be the trio of high-rise buildings that should rise on the site of the famous and still uniquely preserved interwar industrial complex Ferra designed by architect Josef Kříž (1928 - 1929, see photographs and Industrial Heritage Register). The obscure multifunctional complex Phoenix City was recently introduced on the website of the Prague 7 municipal district.
After the increase in building heights at the foot of the Libeň Bridge, the insatiable construction market's attention turned to other attractive and relatively accessible plots, especially local industrial areas. In one space, successful, refined conversions (gas meter factory, steam mills, DOX, M Factory...) clash with enormous pressure for the yield of plots.
Longtime residents have thus been isolated from the banks of the Vltava River by a wall of new apartment buildings called Prague Marina in Holešovice Harbor; the skyline of the neighborhood is newly dominated by the A7 high-rise building in the brewery complex; two one-hundred-and-fifty-meter (! ) skyscrapers on the site of the demolished Tesla factory are also in the discussion phase, and excessively generous construction is planned in the Bubny railway area (Orco), which, despite the unusual overall size of the plot, necessitated the controversial removal of several valuable, recently listed structures from the list of cultural monuments and the subsequent demolition order.
Another example of disregard for cultural heritage and a notorious slap in the face of friendly Holešovice will likely be the trio of high-rise buildings that should rise on the site of the famous and still uniquely preserved interwar industrial complex Ferra designed by architect Josef Kříž (1928 - 1929, see photographs and Industrial Heritage Register). The obscure multifunctional complex Phoenix City was recently introduced on the website of the Prague 7 municipal district.
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