After the reconstruction, the Máj division retailer was opened to the general public. | Video: Diary/Radek Cihla
On 9 flooring, Máj gives outlets, eating places, leisure facilities and a rooftop viewing terrace. Even earlier than the opening, two several-metre lengthy transferring butterflies by the artist David Černý with a fuselage imitating a spitfire fighter on the facade of Máj prompted controversy. The interiors of the leisure facilities on the higher flooring of the division retailer additionally acquired criticism from some architects and components of the general public.
The Tesco retailer and different outlets on the primary two flooring opened within the morning, individuals can go to the Fly Vista restaurant or the Ranges gaming division from 12:00.
After the reconstruction, the Máj division retailer was opened to the general public. | Video: Diary/Radek Cihla
The president of the Commerce and Tourism Affiliation (SOCR) Tomáš Prouza informed ČTK that the Tesco retailer is customized to the placement within the middle of the capital and likewise to vacationers, due to this fact it would supply each recent meals and a wider vary of prepared meals and quick meals.
“Contemporary meals proper on the entrance, a wider vary of ready-made and pre-prepared meals, more room for personal label merchandise and a contemporary, ethereal retailer design,” mentioned Prouza.
Individuals can discover the Tesco hypermarket on the bottom ground. Eating places and cafes occupied the primary and second flooring, together with roughly 750 seats. There may be an leisure middle on the third and fourth flooring. Within the Ranges division, there might be a whole lot of pc arcade video games, racing simulators, mini golf, darts and billiards.
On the fifth ground, the Lvíčkov park gives leisure for smaller kids. The sixth ground will embrace the historic exhibition Again in Time (Again in Time), and followers of superheroes and comics will have the ability to go to the Heroes Park retailer on the seventh ground. On the eighth ground, individuals can go to the Fly Vista restaurant with a view of Prague, and on the final, ninth ground, there are panoramic terraces.
Even earlier than the opening, based mostly on printed photographs on social networks, there have been destructive feedback evaluating the brand new interiors of Maja to a on line casino, circus or Las Vegas.
“The interiors are horrible, it is the exact opposite and nearly a mockery of the unique structure,” architect and architectural historian Zdeněk Lukeš informed ČTK. On the time of Mája’s creation, the architects had been impressed by the challenge of the Middle Georges Pompidou museum in Paris.
Might Nationwide. | Video: Prochazka & Companions
Máj was created on the location of the Neo-Gothic Šlik Palace in response to the design of Miroslav Masák, John Eisler and Martin Rajniš from the Liberec studio SIAL. It was first opened to clients on April 21, 1975. In 2006, the Ministry of Tradition declared the home a cultural monument.
Brothers Václav and Martin Klán, homeowners of Amadeus Actual Property, which has owned the constructing since 2019, collaborated with the architects of the unique constructing, Rajniš and Eisler, on the reconstruction.
“They had been excited as a result of they noticed in us somebody who desires to revive Might once more,” they informed the Klan. In line with them, every ground in Might Nationwide was tailored to a unique use. “So it needed to be constructed so that each idea {that a} given ground has its personal particular face. It is a number of completely different ideas that come collectively in a really perfect idea,” added Václav Klán.
