The Czech Statistical Office took over a new building in Prague 10 - Strašnice

In attendance of Bohuslav Sobotka, the Minister of Finance of the CR, statisticians took over a modern eleven-storey building in the vicinity of Skalka metro station in Praha 10 - Strašnice from the representatives of the construction company Skanska. Besides nationwide headquarters, also regional statistical offices for Prague and for central Bohemia (Středočeský Region) will operate in the building, which has gone up in nine months. The new premises are unique for their state-of-the-art technological and security equipment needed for dealing with data. The building cost CZK 829 million, which will be paid by the state in three instalments.

By coincidence, statisticians move in the new building in the days commemorating the 85th anniversary of an independent state statistical service in the Czech (and Slovak) lands. In January 1919, the National Assembly adopted unanimously the first law that laid down the state statistical service in the legal system of the then young Republic of Czechoslovakia.

From the floods in 2002 when the original premises located in Prague-Karlín were literally washed away by the Vltava river, the Czech Statistical Office was scattered in ten provisional places all over Prague and its neighbourhood. On top of this, original headquarters had only been a provisional solution to the problem for many years, having even no constant house number. The building was built shortly after World War II, presumably as an emergency office for railways.
The new building was given green light by the Government on 27 February 2002 through the Resolution No. 216. The floods speeded up the whole project considerably.

The building’s ground plan has the form of “H”, and the house offers two storeys below ground and three to eleven storeys above ground. As the building will serve administrative purposes, with no exaggerated demands for outside appearance, it looks modest and elegant and the façade is relatively simply structured.

There are patches with low woody plants embedded along both sides of the front sidewalk in the shades of green, grey, blue, and silver. The east side of the ground is flanked with newly planted maples. A garden is situated on the roof facing west. The greenery belt planted around the newly built 'park-and-ride' car park creates a biological barrier alongside the fence so that parking cars are not seen.

The employees move in the new building according to a detailed schedule. The first statisticians came at the turn of the year; the last ones are coming in April. Most complicated was the move for people from the Information Technology Branch who were confronted with the task to safely and quickly shift and connect all the servers and reactivate the computer network. All this is the indispensable technological brain and the nervous system of the Czech Statistical Office.


Construction duration
Construction started on 17 February 2003
Envisaged end of construction: 31 December 2003
Actual end of construction: 11 November 2003


Technical data
Total useful floor area: 23 919 sq. m.
Office floor area: 12 086 sq. m.
Car park: 103 parking spaces
Land area: 4 799 sq. m.
Built-up area: 3 359 sq. m.
Architectural volume: 95 650 cubic m.