Ještěd

Dear guests, welcome to the phenomenal hotel and TV tower Jested. Karel Hubáček, the architect who designed the Ještěd television tower and was awarded the prestigious Auguste Perret Prize by the UIA (for the construction) in fact created a building the silhouette of which has become a rooted symbol of Liberec. The Silhouette of the tower is now a rooted symbol of Liberec. It is a fundamental part of the regional blazon and the emblem of the Technical University of Liberec

The construction of Ještěd brought knowledge and a variety of new materials for the Czechoslovak industry of that time.  For example the implementation of the plastic large-span structures  (at that time the largest structure in the world), the introduction of the manufacture of the protective cylinders for  TV antenna systems by coiling technique, the application of the transverse oscillation dampers prototypes (for the first time in Czechoslovakia), the solution to  metallic-plastic casing and a number of small constructional improvements.

Thanks to these developmental and experimental steps, the hotel was declared a cultural monument in 1998. In 2000 the building became the construction of the century in the Czech architecture. In 2006 the building was declared a national cultural monument and, subsequently, in 2007 the transmitter was added to the indicative list of UNESCO.