The ABF Foundation announced the Buildings of the Year

Park Holiday Author: Petr Suske - SEA Architect

Prague - The Building of the Year 2008 has been awarded to the Park Holiday hotel in Prague, the Moravian State Archive in Brno, the bridge over the Odra River and over the Antošovice lake on the D47 highway, a residential complex in Horní Počernice in Prague, and the regional administrative center in Hradec Králové. The competition organizers announced the winners during a festive evening at the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, marking the sixteenth occurrence of the event this year.
The Building of the Year is awarded annually to five buildings without distinction of order. The selected projects received a plaque that they can attach to the winning building. The jury valued not only the architectural solution of the selected objects but also their integration into the landscape and the satisfaction of the investor and users of the building.
Any building located in the Czech Republic that was completed and put into operation from June of last year until the end of May this year could be entered into the competition.
The Building of the Year competition is traditionally organized by the ABF Foundation, the Union of Construction Entrepreneurs, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the magazine Stavitel of the Economia company. This year, an eight-member jury selected from 61 buildings.
At the same time, the Chairman of the Senate's prize was also announced, awarded to the Hagibor social care home in Prague for the successful combination of historical building and modern extension. The panel apartment building Tatarkova in Prague was praised by the director of the State Housing Development Fund as a good example of the regeneration of panel housing estates, and the Mayor of Prague's award was received by the authors of the reconstruction and extension of the Art Nouveau studio of Ladislav Šaloun.
People could also vote for the best building of the year online. The general public preferred the administrative center in Hradec Králové, the Prague metro line from Ládví to Letňany, and the new football stadium SK Slavia Prague.
During the competition, the jury assessed about 800 buildings. Last year, it awarded the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Prague, the Archdiocesan Museum in Olomouc, the new headquarters of ČSOB in Prague, the pedestrian bridge for cyclists over the Vltava in České Budějovice, and the terminal at Brno Airport.

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