<div>Entrance Hall PRE</div>

<div>Entrance Hall PRE</div>
Address: Na Houdě 1492/4, Vršovice, Prague, Czech Republic
Investor:Pražská energetika, a.s.
Completion:2005


The interior being addressed is the entrance hall of the main headquarters of Prague Energy, a.s. with a reception area, two adjacent meeting rooms, central security, and facilities.

The investor required a new interior design for the entrance hall and central reception area. The intention was to present the company, which is the main distributor of electricity in Prague, as a dynamic and modern firm. The company building was constructed just under eight years ago (Jiran Kohout architects s.r.o. - Zdeněk Jiran, Michal Kohout, Lukáš Holub, Lubor Sladký) and quality materials (granite, travertine, terrazzo) were used in the interiors. The task was to create a representative interior with minimal structural interventions in the building, utilize the existing valuable materials, and carry out the entire interior modifications while the building remained in operation.

Our aim was to present the interior of the reception of PRE a.s. as a continuation of the tradition of seeking new forms in architecture and art, as it was in the 1930s when the kinetic sculptures of the sculptor Zdeňka Pešánek appeared on the buildings and in the interiors of PRE.*

*The light and kinetic sculptures of Zdeňka Pešánek have been placed for several years outside the entrance to the building and in the addressed entrance hall. Unfortunately, at the time of taking the visual documentation of the interior, the sculptures were on long-term loan for foreign exhibition purposes, therefore they are not captured in the photographs. The authors are very much looking forward to seeing them lit up in the interior.

In the case of the "reception and entrance hall," it is not about a sculpture as such, but the design and execution of the reception area intends to experiment with and support something new and
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