News from Radost

Cafe owner Ondřej Kobza placed a swan pedal on the roof terrace of the RADOST house this year, Prague residents commonly know the pedal from the Vltava River but this summer, you can enjoy a whole new experience!

What to look forward to in the 2nd month of 2022? Art exhibitions and film experiences!

Aziya Ikhtymbayeva comes from the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan, but her study trip brought her to Prague in 2006, where she stayed. Since then, under the artistic name Aziya, she has devoted herself mainly to the visual arts. Her creative space is currently in studio 5/116.

We are happy with how much is happening here this summer! We cordially invite you to a rich cultural program, which they prepared for you in the Přítomnost cinema and on the Rooftop bar in August. What can you look forward to?

With the advent of functionalism, ceramic facade cladding began to be widely used in interwar architecture. The builders liked them for easy maintenance and durability. In addition, the tiled grid perfectly underlined the austerity and consistent squareness of the emerging modernism. See the gallery of the most famous tiled buildings in Prague.

Eleven floors and fifty-two meters. This little was enough in the mid-1930s to talk about the new building of the General Pension Institute in Žižkov as a skyscraper. The sky would have to fall really low ... But hand on heart, even those fifty meters of height meant significant construction progress during the First Republic.

Karel Honzík and Josef Havlíček - two great architects whose legacy is a number of important buildings, including Radost. The first is resting in Prague's Slavín cemetery. The last resting place of the second of the greats, Josef Havlíček, did not have the same respect. Until recently.

The traditional weekend holiday of architecture lovers, the Open House Prague festival, attracted 5,000 visitors to open buildings throughout the city. One of them was our Radost. What awaited them?

Our building has new owners who want to bring it to life after many years. The symbol of this transformation is its new name, visual identity and big plans for the future. Read how it all became a reality!

Are you looking for a place where to work locate your company? We know about one! Learn why it's good to have your place in our house.