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Crowne Plaza Prague

CZ 160 45 Prague 6, Koulova 15
Prague Czechia
http://www.crowneplaza.cz

Status:
built
Construction Dates
  Began1952
  Finished1954
Floor Count15
Building Uses
 - hotel
 - conference
 - restaurant
Structural Types
 - highrise

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Spire289 ftWikipedia
Roof220 ft''
Chalice33 ft''
Red star5 ft''
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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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