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Eleven floors and fifty-two meters. This little was enough in the mid-1930s to talk about the new building of the General Pension Institute in Žižkov as a skyscraper. The sky would have to fall really low ... But hand on heart, even those fifty meters of height meant significant construction progress during the First Republic.

With the advent of functionalism, ceramic facade cladding began to be widely used in interwar architecture. The builders liked them for easy maintenance and durability. In addition, the tiled grid perfectly underlined the austerity and consistent squareness of the emerging modernism. See the gallery of the most famous tiled buildings in Prague.