The winner of the competition for the design of the Prague Uprising monument is the RSAA studio
Prague – The winner of the architectural and artistic competition for the design of the monument to the Prague Uprising in Prague 6 - Bubeneč is the architectural studio RSAA. The spokesperson for the district of Prague 6, Marek Zeman, informed ČTK. The statue commemorating the liberation of Prague at the end of World War II will be located at Interbrigády Square, where the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev used to stand. The square itself is also set to change. According to earlier information, the reconstruction is estimated to cost around 40 million CZK, but the exact costs and completion date are not yet known.
At Interbrigády Square stood the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev. However, the city council had it removed in April 2020 based on a decision made in September 2019, which also determined that the Konev monument would be replaced by a monument to the liberation of Prague at the end of World War II.
The design of the monument itself will be conceived as a raised tip, and the monument will feature a green roof. This roof will be walkable and can serve as a resting place or as an amphitheater. The monument will incorporate elements of so-called land art and visitor interaction. An interactive point of the monument will include a loudspeaker with a microphone.
Simultaneously with the new monument, the adjacent park will also be revitalized, where a city garden will be created for leisure activities. At the intersection of the park's paths, there will be a model of Prague indicating the locations of the barricades from the Prague Uprising, and on the opposite side of the park, there will be a usable sculpture featuring a panorama of Hradčany, serving as a play art element in the newly created children's playground. At the center of the park, the authors will place a small monolith, serving as an interpretive model of the uprising.
"Our intention was to create a vision for a 21st-century monument, which is taken from the verticality of an inaccessible pedestal to the horizontality of us citizens utilizing public space. The shape of the monument reflects the tip of the dark mass of the horrors of war and the divided society, which is overcome by the collective human strength," stated the monument's author and RSAA architect Bronislav Stratil. "The resulting breakthrough and view are analogous to the imprint of the shock wave triggered by the strength of the actions of all participants. The monument is a tribute to a significant historical event, just as it is a part of everyday life. It carries a current message for present and future generations," Stratil added.
The winning proposal, according to jury member Ondřej Tuček, best connected the artistic design with the landscape and architectural solution of the entire park. The design was created under the leadership of architect Bronislav Stratil in cooperation with the RSAA studio and landscape architect Lucie Miovská, with artistic collaboration from sculptor and designer Jakub Berdych Karpelisk and support from a broad multidisciplinary team.
A total of 34 proposals were submitted for the first round of the competition, and five proposals advanced to the second round. Studio Perspektiv ranked second in the competition with their design, and zerozero studio took third place.
The monument to Soviet Marshal Konev, who participated in the liberation of Prague from the Nazis but also in the bloody suppression of the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956, was a frequent target for vandals at the square. His monument is now loaned free of charge to the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century.
At Interbrigády Square stood the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev. However, the city council had it removed in April 2020 based on a decision made in September 2019, which also determined that the Konev monument would be replaced by a monument to the liberation of Prague at the end of World War II.
The design of the monument itself will be conceived as a raised tip, and the monument will feature a green roof. This roof will be walkable and can serve as a resting place or as an amphitheater. The monument will incorporate elements of so-called land art and visitor interaction. An interactive point of the monument will include a loudspeaker with a microphone.
Simultaneously with the new monument, the adjacent park will also be revitalized, where a city garden will be created for leisure activities. At the intersection of the park's paths, there will be a model of Prague indicating the locations of the barricades from the Prague Uprising, and on the opposite side of the park, there will be a usable sculpture featuring a panorama of Hradčany, serving as a play art element in the newly created children's playground. At the center of the park, the authors will place a small monolith, serving as an interpretive model of the uprising.
"Our intention was to create a vision for a 21st-century monument, which is taken from the verticality of an inaccessible pedestal to the horizontality of us citizens utilizing public space. The shape of the monument reflects the tip of the dark mass of the horrors of war and the divided society, which is overcome by the collective human strength," stated the monument's author and RSAA architect Bronislav Stratil. "The resulting breakthrough and view are analogous to the imprint of the shock wave triggered by the strength of the actions of all participants. The monument is a tribute to a significant historical event, just as it is a part of everyday life. It carries a current message for present and future generations," Stratil added.
The winning proposal, according to jury member Ondřej Tuček, best connected the artistic design with the landscape and architectural solution of the entire park. The design was created under the leadership of architect Bronislav Stratil in cooperation with the RSAA studio and landscape architect Lucie Miovská, with artistic collaboration from sculptor and designer Jakub Berdych Karpelisk and support from a broad multidisciplinary team.
A total of 34 proposals were submitted for the first round of the competition, and five proposals advanced to the second round. Studio Perspektiv ranked second in the competition with their design, and zerozero studio took third place.
The monument to Soviet Marshal Konev, who participated in the liberation of Prague from the Nazis but also in the bloody suppression of the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956, was a frequent target for vandals at the square. His monument is now loaned free of charge to the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century.
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