Planning a construction/reconstruction work in Prague? Well, I strongly advise you NOT TO contact Atelier Slavicek s.r.o. (architects and interior design).

Looks good on paper, first meetings really interesting, but you might just end up like us loosing time and money. It took them 3 weeks to “study” our apartment and finally provide a proposal 3 times our budget, before telling us that they are not interested anymore to cooperate with us, and in addition charge us (a lot…) for a document that I would be personally ashamed to show to any client (the proposal actually includes an “inspiration” part with the pictures that we provided them for suggestion). I really thought it was a joke…

There are probably many other architects in Prague – but I am scared it might just be the same everywhere (specially in the current real estate boom situation). I just read that:

“Surprisingly, we could not find a single contractor who would build the garage or the fence for us at a reasonable price. The job, they said, was just too small. “Maybe in the spring,” they said. Our last option was to build it piecemeal.” (Prague Monitor, December 11, 2007)

My advise for next time, maybe to try to get a student in architecture that would do something much better for much less…

Any experience or advise on the topic?