The National Palace is a jewel of modern architecture. The exceptional interior takes your breath away
Drn Palace is a multifunctional corner building standing on the corner of Národní and Mikulandská streets in the New Town in Prague 1. The building will impress with both its exterior and its absolutely exceptional interior. It is an administrative complex that serves as offices, but there are also shops, galleries and restaurants. Historical and modern elements and materials intersect at every corner.
Drn Palace is a multifunctional corner building standing on the corner of Národní and Mikulandská streets in the New Town in Prague 1. | Video: TV Architect
The building with a rounded corner was built in the place of the gap between the defunct houses. The new building includes four underground and eight above-ground floors. It has a glass facade with metal decorative rods that evoke baroque decoration. The galleries are then planted with greenery, for example, colorful tulips grow here in the spring. Thanks to the atypical location of greenery on the roof of the building, but also on its facade, the building got its name. The goal was also to revive the busy city street.
Take a look at the interview with architect Stanislav Fiala:
The architect of the building is Stanislav Fiala. Despite the fact that the building is very modern, many of the older buildings and also from the neighboring Schönkirch Palace were used for its creation, which were integrated into the interior elements. These are, for example, passages, stone staircases, brickwork, wooden beams or paving. The visible concrete of the new building is decorated with natural products, there are a number of water elements, the railings are designed from reinforcing steel.
It is very interesting how in some places the modern building blends thanks to historical elements with the adjoining Baroque building. Architect Fiala solved the height difference of the buildings by copying the mansard baroque roof, which thus continues in the adjoining building and gradually disappears.
Both buildings are connected by many special details that combine a modern environment with a historic one. After construction, a public piazzetta common to both buildings was created between Drn and Schönkirch Palace.