City Hall by Karel Stolar - Prague, Czech Republic
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City Hall - New Building - Prague
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/01/2017
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An important piece of Art Nouveau architecture dating back to 1908-1911. Since 1945, it has been the seat of the Prague City Hall and Prague’s Mayor. The Grand Hall is the venue for Prague council meetings, seminars, conferences, and gala events. Exhibitions are occasionally held here.
In 1909, the winner of the competition for the new building, Osvald Polívka, presented his last project, modified in accordance with the remarks of the artistic committee. The house had to correspond in appearance to the surrounding monumental buildings: Clementinum and the Clam-Gallas Palace. In the years 1909 - 11, construction took place, including the demolition works on the land plots, under the management of the company of builder František Tichna. The newly build Secession building has a rectangular shape of 90.5 x 37 m, and it extends on a surface area of 3,350 m2. The town hall block has cellars, it has four stories, and the buttresses and towers above the main cornice are covered by mansard roofs. The construction is for its most part made of ferro-concrete skeleton. The building is entered via a monumental entrance in the central buttress of the main front at Mariánské námestí. The three-part copper-forged gate leads to a ground-floor vestibule, and then there is the main three-flight staircase and a side two-flight staircase. There is a personal elevator, and it is the first place in Prague using the paternosters. There was a box-office assembly hall on the first floor with a surface area of 568 m2, second largest in Prague after the Main Post Office in Jindrišská Street. There was the city box office, the accounting office, tax offices, etc. Altogether, the building could offer 7 463 m2 of offices and there were 250 official rooms.
The author of this painting is Karel Stolar. Karel Stolar is the book illustrator who is dedicated to creating drawings sights. You can find this painting in book 'Pražské domy vyprávejí -'
This book is one of a twelve-part series of books describing structural changes and the development of cultural-historical monuments of Prague (houses, villas and palaces, library, banks, school, museum, hospital, farm, etc.).
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Artist: Karel Stolař
Date of Your Photograph: 12/30/2016
Medium of Painting: pen and ink
Date of Painting: Not listed
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