Fairmont Golden Prague Hotel
| Fairmont Golden Prague | |
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 Fairmont Golden Prague | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Pařížská 30 Prague, Czech Republic, 110 00 |
| Coordinates | 50°5′28.95″N 14°25′6.17″E / 50.0913750°N 14.4183806°E |
| Opening | 2025 |
| Owner | R2G Heritage |
| Management | Fairmont Hotels |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 9 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Marek Tichý |
| Developer | ČEDOK |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 320 |
| Website | |
| https://www.fairmont.com/prague/ | |
The Fairmont Golden Prague hotel is a 9-story, 320-room hotel on the bank of the Vltava River, near the Old Town, in Prague, Czech Republic. It is managed by Fairmont Hotels.[1]
History
[edit]The former InterContinental Praha hotel was designed by noted Czech architect Karel Filsak in the Brutalist style and constructed by the Czech national travel firm ČEDOK from 1968 to 1974.[2] It started receiving guests in August 1974 and celebrated its grand opening on December 7, 1974.[3]
Fairmont Golden Prague is a new chapter in the rich heritage of the former InterContinental hotel, which was conceived as a showcase of the power of Czechoslovak architecture, art and design and opened in 1974. The building, designed by a team of artists led by renowned architect Karel Filsak, has become a pearl of brutalism and an important object of modernism with a high added value of applied art.
Westmont Hospitality Group purchased the hotel in 2010. They sold it in 2013 to the Slovak-based Best Hotel Properties, owned by investment firm J&T. It was sold again, in December 2018, to R2G, the investment group of Czech billionaire Oldřich Šlemr. The hotel was renamed the Fairmont Golden Prague in May 2020, before closing for a major renovation. It will reopen in April 2025 as the Fairmont Golden Prague.[4]
The hotel interior is decorated with artworks that were mostly designed and created specifically for the property, thus forming an integral part of its architecture in a unique harmony. This currently comprises and represents two main eras: works from the period of the hotel’s construction at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s and contemporary works. In both cases, these are artists whose work has crossed the borders of the Czech Republic and who have exhibited or are exhibiting all over the world.
Gallery
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Typical elements of the architecture of the hotel - raw concrete, solid rectangular -
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View from gardens -
The structure in 2021, during renovations, stripped to its concrete shell
References
[edit]- ^ "Fairmont Hotels & Resorts announces its first hotel in the Czech Republic".
- ^ "Landmark Prague hotel changes owners, retains traditions". 29 December 2018.
- ^ https://www.archiweb.cz/en/n/home/hotel-intercontinental-byl-prvnim-petihvezdickovym-hotelem-v-zemi
- ^ "Fairmont Announces Its First Hotel in the Czech Republic".
External links
[edit]- Fairmont Golden Prague official website
- Fairmont Golden Prague official Fairmont chain website
- Fairmont Golden Prague official Accor corporate website
- Hotels in Prague
- Buildings and structures in Prague
- Brutalist architecture in the Czech Republic
- Accor hotels
- Hotels established in 1974
- Hotel buildings completed in 1974
- 1974 establishments in Czechoslovakia
- 20th-century architecture in the Czech Republic
- European hotel stubs
- Czech building and structure stubs