22/09/2026
Superradnice, Most (competition, 2nd prize, 2026)
PLURAL together with artist Matej Gavula proposed a series of interventions for the city council building.
The Town Hall of Most was conceived as a central monument within the modernist centre of the “relocated” city. Its architecture is deliberately non-hierarchical: four equal façades, a permeable ground floor and an intimate inner courtyard.
The building was conceived together with a series of artworks, some relocated from the demolished historic centre, others created specifically for the new building. The most prominent was the mosaic Země, positioned on the attic and evoking the city’s mining heritage.
Its removal due to its deteriorating condition became an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between art, architecture and memory.
Rather than illustrating history, the new intervention responds to the existing architecture and artworks. The original mosaic is reinterpreted through digital blurring and translated into cast-aluminium panels whose appearance changes with light, distance and angle.
At ground level, the interventions strengthen the parterre as a more natural environment, hinting at a future transformation of the public spaces of the city centre.
Above, the attic becomes an upper threshold—simultaneously a sign of the building within the city and the edge of its modernist roofscape.
Most is entering a new stage of its history. The new intervention marks this transition.
with: VI PER, Atelier DIVO, Juraj Gramantík, Samuel Šimonovič, Marek Repáň and Zlata Borůvková
