Palác Chicago, Functionalist palace in New Town, Czech Republic.
Palác Chicago is a seven-storey functionalist building at Národní 32 and Charvátova 11 in Prague's New Town. Built in 1927–1928, it has a reinforced-concrete frame, a flat roof, a facade divided by horizontal window bands, and shop windows at street level.
Jindřich Count Kolowrat-Krakowský commissioned the palace and paid for it by selling his Týnec castle to architect Jaroslav Polívka in 1927. Polívka built it in 1927–1928 with Josef Havlíček on the site of a Neo-Renaissance house with a small tower. It housed a shop selling agricultural produce from the Kolowrat estates at Týnec.
The palace was built for Count Jindřich Kolowrat-Krakowský, who in 1927 traded his Týnec castle to architect Jaroslav Polívka for this plot. Its ground floor housed a shop selling farm produce from the Kolowrat estates at Týnec, so the building served the family's agricultural business.
The building sits near Wenceslas Square and is easily reached on foot from the city center. The facade is fully visible from street level, making it accessible to explore at any time of day.
The palace replaced a Neo-Renaissance house with a small block-shaped turret, and its construction closed off Charvátova Street's original mouth onto Národní třída; access was solved by a passage. Its ground floor once held a shop selling agricultural products from the Kolowrat estates at Týnec.
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