Even people with visual and hearing disabilities for whom examinations are adapted do not have to worry about restrictions. Admission to all open buildings is free without prior registration. The list of specific places is published on the website action.

This year’s event is significant in that it commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Czech architect Jan Kotěra. “I am glad that we managed to combine several of Kotěr’s well-known Prague buildings into the program. Except Laichter’s house in Vinohrady and Trmal villas in Strašnice we will invite visitors to Vršovice waterworks in MichleWe have been striving for the opening of the Open House Prague festival for many years, ” says the festival director Andrea Šenkyříková.

The ARA Palace will also be an attraction. The functionalist building on the corner of Perlová Street from the 1930s is remembered by many as the Perla department store. Its distinctive feature is the rounded glass corner. Steel skeleton technology was used in the construction, as it did in New York skyscrapers, and thanks to its steel strength, it survived two fires.

A novelty of this year’s festival is the opening of several architecturally significant Prague hotels with impressive interiors.

Among the novelties is, for example, a baroque garden Czernin Palace in Hradčany, chapels and selected spaces Klára’s Institute for the Blind in Malá Strana or Lowit’s water mill in Liben.

Open House Prague is part of the international network of Open House Worldwide festivals, which take place in more than 45 cities around the world.

Take a look at selected parts of the Hidden Treasures of Architecture series, dedicated to the work of Jan Kotěra:

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