In 2022, PDS continued coordinating project planning between the City of Prague and Prague 10, and launched an architectural competition for the design of the Vršovická Apartment Building with 139 rental units and retail space on the ground floor. The assigned task also includes designing the public spaces and nearby Botič riverbed.
A total of 47 studios from the Czech Republic and abroad entered the architectural competition, with five moving on to the second round and producing a competition design. In November 2022, the expert jury announced the winner, which was the Brno-based studio Kuba & Pilař Architekti, and determined the ranking of the other competitors.
Architect Pavla Pannová, chair of the expert jury for the architectural competition, stated: “The winning team combines the typology of the indoor corridor and outdoor gallery style apartment buildings that are typical for the urban structure of Vršovice. The design incorporates both variable lay-outs of flats and flexible premises for shops and services on the ground floor. It offers new public spaces with park space along the Botič, draws the watercourse into the semi-public inner courtyard using a terraced staircase, creates a small square by Vršovická and spruces up the inner courtyard with trees. It wasn‘t easy to choose at all because all the other designs were high in quality, approached the task imaginativelyand came up with surprising solutions.”
Once PDS has concluded a work contract with the winning architectural office of Kuba & Pilař architekti, preparation of the building permit documentation will begin in 2023. The project should be realised following the permit procedure, likely in 2025–2027.
In 2023, PDS will launch an architectural competition for the revitalisation and additional construction to the Bohemians1905 football stadium, and will collaborate as an expert consultant on the project for a sports hall on Přípotoční,with the Prague 10 Municipal District and Prague City Hall Department of Education and Sport being the primary actors.
