Viktoria Žižkov football club: Park RADOST is waiting for a transformation
RADOST Park in front of FK Viktoria Žižkov Stadium belongs to a private owner. Prague 3 has now signed a “Memorandum of Cooperation” with Dům Radost. Together they will announce an architectural competition to transform the park. At the same time, they maintain access to the football stadium and try to include the land of the former headquarters of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
“Together we are stronger”
The preparation of the Memorandum has been underway since 2021. Both sides think that lower Zizkov needs development like salt. The neighboring lands of Viktoria Žižkov and the Lands of Radost Square are to continue to serve primarily the general public as a sports complex with a stadium and an open modern park. The whole space there wants to make the town hall more attractive in such a way that it becomes one of the natural centers of the Prague 3 district and at the same time a cultivated boarding area before entering the Radost House.
What will happen?
The parties have agreed that together you will come up with an idea competition for the future modification, revitalization or reconstruction of the lands of Viktoria Žižkov and the lands of Dom Radost. It will include a proposal for the functional content of the site and its economic cost. They also want to ask the regime Ministry of Finance to use the land on which stood the former Institute for the Study of Totalitarians.
The park is also to affect II. Reconstruction stage of Seifertova street, which is financed by the city. The Institute for Planning and Development (IPR) is thinking about rain retention technology due to the growing water shortage in the landscape. The problem should be solved by a retention system with tanks built directly in the park.
Architectural competition
In order for the place to take on a new look, the town hall and the landowner will announce an idea competition, which will be open to architects. A commission of representatives of both actors will be formed. Not only the appearance of the proposals will be taken into account, but also the valid conditions of the Football Association of the Czech Republic, statements of the Ministry of Finance and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, a study of public reconstruction Seifertova Street or a document on rainwater management in Prague. Both parties will participate in the financing of the competition. The winning design must be economically sustainable.
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Ceremonial signing of the memorandum between the Prague 3 district and the Radost as House
Author: Prague 3