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Prague - At the turn of March and April, the demolition of the Transgas complex buildings on Vinohradská Avenue in Prague will begin. Jakub Verner from HB Reavis, the company that owns the buildings, stated this today in response to a query from ČTK. The owner announced at the beginning of February that they plan to sell Transgas or the already vacant land. Whether the demolition will be completed before the sale depends on offers and the speed of negotiations. Demolition work will take several months. The intention to remove buildings, which the state has refused to protect as heritage, has provoked criticism from some experts.
"We plan to start the actual demolition at the turn of March and April. Preparatory work is still ongoing at this moment," Verner stated. Scaffolding is installed around the tower buildings, and in the next 14 days, two tower cranes will be assembled at the building to move the dismantled material.
"By the end of March, we will also start dismantling the roof coverings. The granite cladding of the former central dispatch has been removed continuously," Verner added. According to earlier statements, the demolition will be environmentally friendly, and the company also plans to clean up any possible pollution of the surrounding roads. The Department of Construction of Prague 2 approved the demolition of the complex in January this year, and no one appealed the decision. A fence was erected around Transgas in the following days.
HB Reavis aims to sell Transgas or the vacant land along with the development project they are preparing there. Discussions about the sale are ongoing, Verner said. The capital city has also expressed interest in the complex, wanting to preserve the buildings and relocate up to 500 municipal officials there. However, in the first round of negotiations, representatives of the city and the owner could not agree on the price. Prague is now considering involving co-investors.
The complex of buildings of the former Central Gas Dispatch Transgas and the Ministry of Fuels and Energy is located a short distance from Wenceslas Square, beneath the Czech Radio building. It is the work of the team Jindřich Malátek, Ivo Loos, Zdeněk Eisenreich, and Václav Aulický. The intention to demolish the complex has sparked debates about the architecture of the socialist era, which has both supporters and critics.
The Club for Old Prague attempted to protect the complex of buildings from demolition by proposing to the Ministry of Culture to declare them a monument. The Prague office of the National Heritage Institute did not recommend the declaration, stating that "the area does not create a city-forming environment and materially and in scale damages the environment of the city monument zone." The ministry did not declare the buildings as monuments.
Supporters of the building assess it as an example of stylistically synthetic architecture of the 1970s, combining elements of brutalism, technicism, and postmodernism, but also as a rare realization of postmodern urbanism in Czech territory.
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