New Bulovka

Straight lines, smooth facades or well-lit spaces. In the 1930s, Czech architecture was ruled by functionalism. This is also the period when the Bulovka Hospital was established in the complicated terrain of Prague 8. Na Bulovce University Hospital is an extensive hospital complex, located on a hill adjacent to Bílá skála, in Liben. During the year, about fifty thousand patients are hospitalized in the hospital, while thousands more visit it as daily patients. Today's situation, however, is becoming critical. Expanded pavilions are very impractical from the point of view of hospital running. At the same time, many blocks nowadays no longer meet the necessary hygienic or technical requirements. The hospital has its golden years behind it and a change in the premises is necessary or even des