Astral Tower is a project that, thanks to its location and design, completes the urban layout of the Nové Butovice East Metro terminal and is in line with the vision of the so-called Northwest City, as conceived in the 1960s by architect and urban planner Ivo Oberstein.

The modern concept of this multifunctional building integrates retail spaces on the ground floor, office spaces on the lower floors, and residential units on the upper floors into a single cohesive whole. The basements provide the necessary parking capacity for the building and discreetly house the essential technical and technological infrastructure.

The project’s design takes into account the immediate surroundings—in particular, the entrance to the metro concourse, the DPP bus terminal, the planned Radlická Radial, the biocorridor, and the forest park around Vidoule Hill. It addresses pedestrian and barrier-free connectivity and accessibility throughout the entire area in great detail and functionally, and also adds a piazzetta as the forecourt of the metro station and restores the original cherry orchard to the area.

In terms of form and location, the building features an organic shape with diagonal symmetry achieved by adding to and subtracting from the floor plan envelope according to a prescribed mathematical algorithm, accentuated by an aesthetic split in the envelope in the form of northern and southern edges.

The building’s center of gravity is situated at the intersection of the north-south axis—where the metro exits northward—and the east-west axis, which connects to the city boulevard continuing westward toward Sluneční náměstí Square.