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Crowne Plaza Prague
CZ 160 45 Prague 6, Koulova 15
Prague Czech Republic
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1952 | | Finished | 1954 | | Floor Count | 15 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - hotel | | - conference | | - restaurant | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - art deco | | - wedding cake | | Materials | | - glass | | - brick | | - concrete |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Spire | | 289 ft | | Wikipedia | | | | | | | | Roof | | 220 ft | | '' | | | | | | | | Chalice | | 33 ft | | '' | | | | | | | | Red star | | 5 ft | | '' | | | | | |
Description
• Architect: František Jerábek & Associates.
• Tenant: Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts, Six Continents PLC.
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• The "Wedding-cake" architecture resembles Stalins seven sisters in Moscow. Order of Defence minister Alexej Cepicka. The largest Stalinist architecture building in Prague.
• In the communist era, it is was used as a military headquarter. Part of it was a fallout shelter for 600 people, currently used as a staff clothes room. Since 2000, it is a National Monument.
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