EVENT: Join Expats.cz for a guided tour of a brutalist Prague landmark

Prague's cityscape is full of stories, and few buildings tell one quite as compelling as the complex known as Prager's Cubes. Completed in 1975 to a design by Karel Prager and Jiří Kadeřábek, the three steel-and-glass pavilions near Emauzy Abbey have long been a defining, if sometimes divisive, feature of the New Town skyline. Now, with a major renovation on the horizon, there's no better moment to see them up close.

As part of CAMP's ongoing CAMP Tours series, we're inviting you to join an English-language guided walk around the former Association of Design Studios complex on Wednesday, April 22, starting at 5:30 p.m.

The tour explores how attitudes toward post-war architecture are shifting, and what it means to preserve the best of it for a new century. You'll get an up-close look at the complex's bold steel structure and its distinctive GAMA system components, whose contrast with the heavy concrete bases gives the entire ensemble its unmistakable character.

Between 2027 and 2030, all three pavilions will undergo careful renovation led by IXA studio, while landscape architects Land05 redesign the surrounding grounds and greenery. The tour will bring you right to the edge of that transformation.

The walk will be led by Jiří Jaroš, a communication specialist focused on urbanism and public debate about the city. A regular face at CAMP, he hosts discussions and international events on architecture and urban development, leads the Architecture Tram rides, and is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague.

After the tour, the Expats.cz editorial team will be on hand to hear directly from you. We want to know what issues matter most to Prague’s English-speaking community and how we can better cover local developments in urban planning, transport, and city life.

We're looking forward to meeting you!