#verticalpromenade

 A Building That Opens to Its CityThe existing building, completed in 1969, represents a specific era of modernist public architecture — functional and institutionally focused, yet essentially inward-facing in its spatial organization and relation to the public realm. Today it faces a challenge shared by many comparable public buildings across Central Europe: how to transform a monofunctional administrative structure into a living organism that truly serves its inhabitants. In this project, architecture is not the background to institutional activity — it is the instrument of transformation.The project arrives at a moment when questions of institutional transparency, accessibility of public buildings, and the quality of sha... More