New flats Prague 7: The city district has launched an architectural competition for an apartment building
Prague has been dealing with a housing crisis for a long time. The reason is primarily the prices, which have risen to astronomical amounts in recent years. The municipality therefore approved a strategy according to which up to 500 apartments should be built annually by 2030. However, this has not been successful yet. The newly established Prague development company, which is tasked with building city apartments, should also help. It is in them that the city sees a way out of the housing crisis.
Apartments for young and old
However, individual city districts are also trying to solve the lack of apartments, either by repairing apartments that have been empty for a long time, or by building completely new apartment buildings. She decided to take this path Prague 7, which at the end of July announced an international architectural competition in the form of a new apartment building on the corner of Železničářů and Za Papírná streets. Today it is a rather unattractive place, but it is located on the edge of the Bubny-Zátory brownfield, where massive construction will take place in the coming years and a new district will be created with apartments, offices, but also the necessary infrastructure, within which new schools, kindergartens or doctors’ offices will be built .
“Prague needs a much larger offer of available cheaper small-sized apartments. That’s why we repair dilapidated apartments that previously lay idle for a long time, and we are trying to further expand the number of municipal flats, for example by building attics. Last year, we completely renovated a vacant apartment building with 15 apartments in Dobrovského Street, and now we are announcing an architectural competition for a new townhouse with 35 available apartments and civic amenities,” said the mayor of Prague 7, Jan Čižinský (Praha Sobě).
Big changes for the future
At first glance, the location may seem like a sleeping torso of old Holešovice, but due to the good transport connections, there is a wide range of civic amenities. In Rajská there is an elementary school, next to which the construction of another school building is being prepared, a secondary school, and the construction of a kindergarten is also planned in the park along Plynární street. Several hotels operate here on Plynární street, the student dormitories project was recently completed.
A house with a construction volume of up to 3,500 square meters of gross floor area should be built on the free plot. Accordingly, a territorial study was prepared earlier. About 35 small apartments should be created here in a modular solution that allows simple modification. Roughly a third of the apartments will be equipped with wheelchair access. “Our goal is an economically and ecologically sound building that will be one of the first building blocks of the newly emerging district,” said Prague 7 Deputy Mayor Lenka Burgerová (Praha Sobě), who is responsible for the development of the city district.
![This is where the new school in Prague 7 will be located.](https://1884403144.rsc.cdn77.org/foto/zakladni-skola-nova-pradelni-jana-vodnanskeho-praha-7-holesovice/MzAweDIxMC9jZW50ZXIvdG9wL2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg4NSk6bm9fdXBzY2FsZSgpL2ltZw/7797659.jpg?v=0&st=umeYAo5GZa_Z69aIjUZPmWaXlEZt3dVsQqoJOFUAXmw&ts=1600812000&e=0)
The ground floor of the newly built apartment building was to actively serve the public. “In addition to the commercial part, insufficient civic amenities should also be located here. “At the moment we are counting on a children’s group for at least 21 children,” added the deputy mayor of Prague 7, Pavel Zelenka (Praha Sobě), who is in charge of managing the project.
The estimated construction costs are calculated at 125 million CZK without VAT. For the construction, Prague received 7 subsidies from the Fund for the Development of Affordable Housing in the Capital Territory. m of Prague in the amount of CZK 170 million. A new urban apartment building could be built within four years.
Praha 7 will build an apartment building with small apartments on unused land
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