Jiřičná designed a skyscraper for Brno

Will Eva Jiřičná see a tall building realized in Brno? (Image: Proposal for the extension of the Centrum department store, former Baťa, 2007 - developer ORCO)

Brno - Architect Eva Jiřičná has designed a skyscraper for the wider center of Brno, which would now be the tallest in the city. The structure on Heršpická Street in Brno is to be 117 meters high and cost 3.5 billion crowns. According to her, only the project has been completed so far; the investor HS-Investment has no other permits.
    Jiřičná and her studio AI Design were reportedly asked for the project directly by the investing company, which is apparently led by Austrian entrepreneur Gerhard Hudecek. He already owns several properties in Brno, some of which he had built.
    According to Vojtěch Mencl (ODS), a councilor of the Brno-střed district, the city hall should probably develop a project that would revise the possibilities of the area around Heršpická.
    The new skyscraper, named Palác Heršpická, is to have 35 floors. It will compete with two skyscrapers that are to rise in the south of Brno. The pair of towers has a cloverleaf-shaped floor plan, with the taller one measuring 117 meters. This is 8 meters more than the neighboring AZ Tower. The AZ Tower, which is to start construction in February, is to measure 109.5 meters. It is backed by the investor AZ Tower.
    Seventy-one-year-old Jiřičná lives in Great Britain. She is renowned for her projects for stores in New York and London. She has received several honors and awards for her work.