City Empiria, Skyscraper in Nusle, Prague, Czech Republic
City Empiria is an office skyscraper beside the Pankrác metro station on the edge of Nusle, Prague 4. The tower has 27 floors and stands 104 m tall, with an antenna reaching 132 m; its floor area measures 24,500 m². The facade is a dense grid of dark blue glass windows divided by thin light mullions, with broad white vertical strips along the edges and a narrower white band down the centre.
The tower was built in the 1970s and originally served as the headquarters of Motokov, a Czechoslovak foreign trade company. In the early 2000s, it went through a full renovation that transformed it into a contemporary office complex.
The tower's name changed with its 2005 reconstruction: it was long known as the Motokov building after the foreign trade company it housed from 1977. Its lower neighbour carries the sign "SALANDA PARKHÁZ", and the adjacent block is marked "GEMINI CENTRUM".
The tower sits close to the D1 motorway and public transport stops in Nusle are reachable on foot, making it easy to get to by different means. Access inside is generally reserved for people with business appointments, so it is worth checking in advance before heading there.
The site stands at an elevation of 268 m above sea level, which is noticeably higher than the historic city center. As a result, the top of the tower is visible from many parts of Prague, including areas far from Nusle itself.
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