Lawyer and former longtime head of the Czech Cycling Association, Marian Štetina, bought a recreation facility in the neighborhood of the Vysočina Arena in 2019 and has been gradually renovating it ever since. The hotel recently lost its overhanging balconies with the typical triangular opening, which was noticed by some spectators at the ongoing Biathlon World Cup.
Current work, interrupted by winter and a major international event, is also related to energy savings. “With the help of the subsidy, we replaced all the windows and roofs, insulated the facade and also replaced all the equipment that could save energy,” Marian Štetina told Novinkám.
During the work, however, the idea was born to replace the existing balconies. “It’s a hotel from 1972,the needs than and today are different. We will build loggias that will be the entire width,” the owner showed on the visualizations. In the pictures, the vertical sunshades made of painted aluminum in the color of wood will catch your eye at first glance.
The Brno studio of architect Martin Kareš is behind the conversion of Hotel Ski.”He told me that he also sees the Ski Hotel as an icon of the Žďárské vrchy, so we have to do it very sensitively so as not to spoil it,” mentioned the owner. “The loggias will be deeper than the original balconies, thay are oriented to the south side, so they will provide more benefit to the guests than the original small balconies,” he compared.
The comrades stopped the construction
Hotel Ski is a large part of the modern history of the mecca of cross-country skiing. Skiers from Nové Město waited in vain for a long time for a replacement for the cottage on Harus’s hill, which burned to the ground in September 1942 and was not restored.
Originally it was supposed to be just a car camping with a restaurant, in the end the city got an unusual hotel for its time, which has become its symbol over the years.
“In 1966, the Novoměstsk ski section together with the public raised a demand for the construction of facilities for skiers and tourists. It received a promise of support from the government committee for tourism that was created at the time. the original idea was modest, it was supposed to be a car park with a restaurant building. However, the government committee recommended a more valuable project. This meant a representative task and a challenge to create an adequate recreation center,” recalled architect Jan Kruml on the hotel’s fiftieth anniversary, who designed it a building typical of a mountain environment.
According to his memories, the normalization policy also affected construction. “While searching for political mistakes, the Židár comrades found a hotel under construction in the forest and it was called an anomaly in 1968. The construction was loudly stopped, the leaders of Nový Město were threatened with personnel punishment, it was dramatic.They said that we were wasting workers’ money, when the rooms have a bathroom and a toilet, I will never forget that. But after about a year, it was quietly restarted,” Kruml described before four years.
The hotel was dealt with at the government level
