RaumScape: A Unique Piazzetta in Old Town Prague

Competition conditions, brief, and documents will be available from 5.5.2025 after the competition's official announcement. From 5.5.2025, you can also submit an application via a form on this website.
No fees are associated with the competition, and no registration in any electronic tool is needed.

RaumScape: A Unique Piazzetta in Old Town Prague
The RaumScape competition invites innovative solutions that perceive public space and architecture as a fluid, interlocking, layered urban landscape. RaumScape aims to connect public space with new programming to create a vibrant and dynamic urban landscape. This architectural and landscape competition seeks visionary solutions that reimagine public space and architecture as a layered, interconnected whole within the urban fabric.

RaumScape = Raumplan + Landscape
The competition's approach is based on the unique Raumplan concept introduced by Adolf Loos in Villa Müller, built in Prague in 1930. Loos brought a new way of working with space that goes beyond the traditional concept of floors and instead uses different heights and intermediate levels to create fluid and interconnected spaces. RaumScape takes inspiration from this philosophy in the context of contemporary landscape architecture and urban design.

The competition concerns the design of the space in front of the Fairmont Golden Prague Hotel (a former InterContinental hotel) in Prague's Old Town.
The design focuses on a contemporary-quality public space for Prague residents and visitors, incorporating service, technological, and rental areas. This is combined with the context of a conservation area, the neighborhood of a late modernist hotel, and the now commonplace requirements of adaptability, sustainability, and blue-green infrastructure.
The competition aims to find a partner with whom the client can develop a quality project from the finalisation of the design to its successful implementation and transform a long-standing indeterminate space into an attractive public place.

The competition received support from both the Prague 1 District and the City of Prague. In January 2025, the Prague 1 District Council approved the launch of the competition and the signing of a memorandum of cooperation. The City of Prague joined the memorandum in April 2025. The brief now reflects:
-public demands for a high-quality public space,
-investor requirements for integrating service and rental facilities,
-the shared priority of both the district and the city to revitalize this key public area in Prague’s historic center.