Baťa's Ideal City Center Remained Just a Vision. The Práce Square in Zlín Is Still Looking for an Architectural Solution.

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With its 38,000 square meters, Práce Square in Zlín is approaching the size of Wenceslas Square and was close to achieving similar significance. However, its fate was affected by the economic crisis, war and change of regime, and only an unfinished torso remained from the ambitious plan for the city center. We will show what the Zlín square could have looked like according to the designs of Baťa's court architect František Lýdie Gahura in the ne…