Palác Vinohrady, International Style skyscraper in Vinohrady district, Prague, Czech Republic
Palác Vinohrady is a high-rise in the International Style that rises 18 stories to about 68 meters, using a steel frame with aluminum panels and thermal reflective glass windows. The structure contains office spaces and technical areas with roughly 88 windows per floor.
Palác Vinohrady was built in 1971 by the Milanese firm FEAL to designs by Zdeněk Kuna, Zdeněk Stupka and Oliver Honke-Houfek as the headquarters of the foreign trade enterprise Strojimport. Its form follows the Seagram Building of 1958 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. The building has since been renamed Palác STIMB, Casablanca INT and Stimbuilding, and in 2025 it was protected as a cultural monument.
Locals still call the tower Strojimport, after the foreign-trade company it was built for, even though its official name has changed several times. Prague's transport authority was still using "Želivského (u Strojimportu)" for the nearby tram stop in 2012, to distinguish it from the metro entrances.
The tower stands on the southwest corner of Vinohradská and Jana Želivského, at Vinohradská 2396/184, by the Želivského metro station and tram stops. It is an office building, so visitors see the steel-and-glass exterior and the two-storey base from the street; the roof mast brings the height to about 90 m.
A pyramid-shaped steel structure was added to the roof in 2003 to carry telecommunications equipment and radio transmitters. This modern addition shows how the building has adapted to new technological needs over the decades.
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