Amazon Court, Office building in Karlín, Prague 8, Czech Republic

Amazon Court is an office building in Karlín, Prague 8, designed by the Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Its façade is clad in Star White granite, and its dominant element is a large daylit atrium with coloured internal blinds moved by electric motors. It was built in 2010 and offers 19,800 m² of offices and 2,200 m² of shops and services.

Amazon Court was built in 2010 in Karlín as part of the River City Praha development, designed by the Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen, known for the Black Diamond extension of the Danish royal library in Copenhagen. It now belongs to the Riverside Karlín business park with Nile House, Mississippi House, Missouri Park and Danube House, all in the CA Immo portfolio.

The building is named after the Amazon, continuing the river names of River City Praha: Nile House, Mississippi House, Missouri Park and Danube House. The coloured blinds inside the glazed atrium, driven by electric motors, are what a passer-by notices. The complex belongs to the CA Immo portfolio.

Amazon Court has 254 parking spaces in its underground garages, and the building also contains 2,200 m² of shops and services, so errands can be done on site. It stands in Karlín, Prague 8, within the Riverside Karlín business park alongside Nile House, Mississippi House, Missouri Park and Danube House.

The coloured interior blinds in the atrium move on electric motors, and the heating and cooling rely on natural technologies: fresh air builds overpressure in a double floor and flows out through vents into the individual offices.