For nearly a century, the Grand Hotel Evropa stood on Wenceslas Square as one of Prague's most recognizable Art Nouveau facades — gilded, tiled, and unmistakably itself — while quietly falling into disrepair behind its ornamental ironwork. The building that now houses W Prague, which arrived in 2024 following almost a decade of painstaking restoration, required three architectural practices to bring it back: Chapman Taylor handled the heritage restoration and served as architect of record, Benoy designed the new elliptical wing, and DAM.architekti contributed to the new-build concept. The original 1903–1905 structure, designed by Bedřich Bendelmayer and Alois Dryák, remains a protected monument, and at night its illuminated facade — lettered in neon, crowned in gilt — still commands the square as it always has. Inside, the 161 rooms and suites spread across the restored seven-story heritage building and a new nine-story wing, with AvroKO leading the key public spaces and premium suites and Chapman Taylor taking the spa and standard guestrooms. AvroKO drew the design concept from Bohemian glassmaking, alchemy, and the dreamlike botanical illustrations of Alphonse Mucha — legible in the circular tinted-mirror headboards that scatter colour like stained glass, the gold-leaf bar ceiling where pleated mushroom columns bloom upward, and the verde marble vanities that anchor the premium suites in something heavier and older than the rest. The rooftop terrace, dressed in terracotta scallop tiles and tropical abundance, feels like a greenhouse escaped to the rooftops.

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