Sekyra Group is completing the first phase of the district on Rohanský Island in Prague

Prague - The development firm Sekyra Group has completed four residential and one office building on Prague's Rohanský Island; the first phase of the project will be wrapped up this year with the commencement of construction for three additional buildings. This year, the company will also begin the second phase of construction, which will consist of four residential blocks and three administrative buildings. Company representatives announced this to journalists today. The streets in the emerging district will be named after philosophers, and a philosophy festival will take place there in September.

Construction on Rohanský Island began in 2021. According to company representatives, the completed four residential buildings contain 220 apartments. The completed office building Arché was designed by Eva Jiřičná and is used by Sekyra Group as its headquarters. The design for the second administrative building, which will begin construction this year and will house Creditas Bank, was created by Jakub Cígler.

This year, the company will begin construction of two residential towers that will complete the first phase. The second phase of construction will start this year with four blocks closest to the city center, which will also partially be for rental housing. Along the Rohanský waterfront, three administrative buildings will be constructed, which are expected to be completed in 2028.

The entire development is expected to be completed by the company's plans by 2035, providing housing and jobs for 11,000 people with costs reaching 25 billion crowns. The district will include parks, a central square, and a school. "We aim to create a one-kilometer waterfront promenade that will be the center of civic life, a place for meeting, and a key public space," stated the chairman of the board of Sekyra Group, Luděk Sekyra.

The streets and public spaces in the new district will be named after famous philosophers. "I am glad that our proposal to honor great Czech philosophers as well as prominent figures of Western thought who have fundamentally shaped the character of our civilization has been accepted," said Sekyra. So far, three streets have been named after philosophers Jan Sokol, Radim Palouš, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Future streets will be named after Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, John Stuart Mill, Josef Ludwig Fischer, Roger Scruton, Emmanuel Levinas, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Edmund Husserl, Rudolf Carnap, Ladislav Hejdánek, Erazim Kohák, Thomas Hobbes, and entrepreneur Vlastimil Zátka. The parks will carry the names of John Locke, Derek Parfit, John Rawls, and Simone Weil. Streets in the company's other large project on the site of the former Smíchov freight station will carry the names of great female figures.

Sekyra further stated that a philosophical festival will be held annually in the new district, with the first one taking place this September. According to philosopher Adam Lalák, the aim of the event is to present philosophy not as an impersonal academic discipline but as an activity that anyone can engage in. He added that this year's theme will be the question of philosophy and space. "We will focus a lot on interactivity, on the interaction of people with the space that surrounds them, and on maximizing the involvement of participants," he stated. The event will include a philosophical walk, an expert panel, and a cultural program.