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By its monumental façade, the new Institute of Noblewomen became this way an outstanding building within the Hradčany skyline. The Institute was closed in 1918, and the Ministry of Interior made it its offices for a long time. Access to the building was restricted, and performed alterations were inappropriate altogether. Among those worst were the built-in garage and petrol station on the Rosenberg courtyard, a stand-by power generator and oil fuel-management areas in the second basement, a training firing range in the former Schwarzenberg House, and many modern partitions and suspended ceilings with plenums packed with cables. The refurbishment was carried out in operation in nine phases including not just the interior, the building, its roof, the basements, and the courtyard, but the fortification above the Na Valech garden, the building’s base, and renders to Jiřská and the Rosenberg Palace courtyard. The condition of the brief was that construction work would be carried out regarding the tenant, the logics of operation, and the investor’s financial capacity dependent on the state budget. Prague Castle Administration and Castle Police offices, textile restoration workshops, and Castle collections depositories occupy the greater part of the ground floor and the first floor. The first basement contains restorer workshops, rooms and repositories of the Archives of the Office of the President, a detached establishment for the Institute of Archaeology CAS, and the areas around the Rosenberg Palace courtyard with a hall and a coffee shop open to the public. The Renaissance vaulted Rosenberg Hall, during the renovation by Pacassi divided in a corridor and four rooms with inserted flat ceilings, was cleared of these additional structures and structurally stabilised; the Hall, now in its almost original condition, will be used for various cultural events and exhibitions. The Baroque Chapel of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was also restored; the complete three-storied space, into which additional floor structures were inserted in the 1920s, will be used for the same purpose as the Hall. The embedded floor structures were removed, almost entirely salvaged frescoes on walls and the ceiling were restored as well as windows and doors; two new organ lofts were reconstructed. The main staircase with a portico bearing the emblem of the Institute of Noblewomen at the top, one of the most valued Baroque spaces in the building, was restored either. Mode
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