GOVERN — turn political authority into an office complex

Bílý dům was built in 1974–1976 as the Brno city headquarters of the Communist Party. That programme matters more than the nickname. Miroslav Spurný and František Jakubec combined a tall office slab with cylindrical glazed stair elements and a sculptural hall, creating architecture for administration, meetings and political representation. After 1989, the assignment changed dramatically: health services, education, cultural activity and the Břetislav Bakala Hall occupy the complex. Look at the building as a machine whose institutional meaning has been rewritten without demolishing the machine itself. Adaptive reuse here is politically legible: the same concrete frame serves a very different public city.