The original Neo-Renaissance station of 1871, by Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann and Antonín Viktor Barvitius, was called the castle station. Josef Fanta designed the Art Nouveau building that replaced it from 1901 to 1909, with dome sculptures by Stanislav Sucharda and Ladislav Šaloun. It became a cultural monument on December 31, 1976.
Jaroslav Marjanko and Rudolf Kornfeld designed the steel train hall, roofed in 1905 and 1906. It has two naves, each about 109 feet (33.3 m) wide, and is 59 feet (18 m) high and 764 feet (233 m) long. Josef Danda, Jan Bočan and others built a Brutalist underground hall of about 394 by 197 feet (120 × 60 m) from 1972 to 1979.
The new road over it cut the historic hall off from the city. The steel hall was restored from 2014 to 2017. The article gives 90,000 daily passengers in one place and 53 million a year in another.
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