After 1989, Litomyšl town council commenced on a systematic regeneration of the town and its public spaces, but also constructed buildings for public institutes which were characteristic for their above-standard design. On the other hand, private investors did not see the architectural design of their buildings as being important. The Savos Company was the first to break away from this practice and, between 1999 and 2000, built a salesroom and office premises according to a design by Prague architects Vladimír Krátký and Aleš Pappa.
The building, designed for the sloping, wedge-shaped site between Moravská and U Plovárny Street, is a unit of two masses, whose layout echoes the direction of both streets and utilizes the height difference on the plot. Each practically-laid out part is shifted in relation to the other along its longitudinal axis, thus, creating an access space with a ramp and stairway. The building itself is based on the simplicity and purity of geometrical shapes, but also on the direct effect of the materials used – concrete, glass, coloured renderings – and the combination of wooden and aluminium window frames. Its style oscillates between Neo-functionalism and Minimalism, a style generally very popular among Czech architects.
Thanks to a certain reticence, the designers have managed to create an urban design which is also architecturally very sensitive, something not usually the norm with such buildings. Moreover, the commercial building suits the dominating site without exaggerating its importance.
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