How to create a iconic highrise that respects tradition?
Prague – The Golden City… The City of Hundred Towers… How can you build a modern tower in this great line of beautiful towers that has become the trademark of Prague? By uniting the tradition of building towers in clusters, which is seen in the old Prague, with the rational way of organizing tall buildings as we know it from the American skyscraper, it is possible to make a new kind of contemporary tower that unites history, functionality and the need for a new Walter site landmark. What will appear as four different towers is actually one continuous building that is sliced up and pulled appart to maximise the amount of surface and facade area to create attractive apartments. A series of manipulations of the slab is turning an ordinary appartment slab into a series of towers. By twisting, the building is “opened up” towards the surroundings – letting in people and light.
I was part of the design team on this project while employed at BIG in Copenhagen, Denmark.
