The Victoria Palace building is the first new building in almost 90 years to complement Vítězné Square (Vítězné náměstí) in Dejvice, Prague, in its north-eastern part between Jugoslávských partyzánů and Verdunská streets.

According to the original regulation by the architect Antonín Engel, Vítězné Square has a specific shape, with its south-eastern half forming a rectangle with a 1:2 aspect ratio, while the north-western half has the shape of an exact semicircle. This is a reference to classical Greece and one of its most famous geometric design problems - squaring the circle. In the broader urban context, the square is intersected by the axes of the individual streets, while from a geometric point of view the main axis of symmetry is the line in the direction of Dejvická - Technická streets.

Following this basic axis of the square, the Victoria Palace building is the natural counterpart of the original General Staff building. This neoclassical building is characterized by a curved mass with a hipped roof and a distinctive vertical division. Horizontally, the General Staff building is divided according to classical morphology with a prominent plinth, a multi-storey mass terminating in a principal moulding with a hipped roof.

The starting principle for the architectural concept of the new building we designed was the abstracted external form of the General Staff building, consisting of a curved mass with an adjoining hipped roof, and thus a symmetrical addition to the square. But while the General Staff building inherently looks like a massive military palace, the new building aimed to create the opposite impression - lightness and openness. These aspects of the design respond to the different functional use, i.e. a residential building with a commercial ground floor.

Another connecting element of these opposing buildings is the prevailing verticality of the basic volume, which is horizontally divided in a similar way into the ground floor, the main mass and the receding roof.