Komerční banka Smíchov, Brutalist bank building in Smíchov, Czech Republic.
Komerční banka Smíchov is a two-storey building on the corner of Štefánikova Street and V Botanice Street in Smíchov, Prague. Its plan is a truncated octagonal pyramid, so the walls slope inward toward the top. The exterior is clad in ceramic tiles from Keramika Horní Bříza, and a residential complex with similar features adjoins it.
Karel Prager designed this building in 1977 as a banking facility for the Czechoslovak State Bank, with construction finishing in 1992. The structure served as a branch until closure in 2022.
Locals call the building "bunkr" or "betonový projektil" (concrete projectile) because of its truncated octagonal pyramid shape. The cladding was supplied by Keramika Horní Bříza, the ceramics works in West Bohemia. The adjoining residential block repeats the same forms, and the bank's branch here closed in 2022.
The building sits at the intersection of Stefanikova Street and V Botanice in the Smichov district. Access is limited to viewing the exterior, as it no longer functions as a bank and is not open to the public.
The building was originally part of a larger urban renewal plan that never came to full completion. An adjacent residential complex shares the same brutalist style, showing what the entire district was meant to become.
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