Bem, deputy chairman of he senior ruling Civic Democratic Party (ODS), said at the ODS's ideological conference in Hradec Kralove that no one has negotiated with him or with the Prague City Hall about the relocation. The information, according to which not even representatives of the Prague City Hall and the NK management would be opposed to the library at Vysehrad, was carried by daily Lidove noviny (LN) and its server on Friday. The compeititon for the library was won by the London-based Future Systems studio of Prague not main decision-maker on new National Library - mayor ...
Architect Kaplicky gives Prague ultimatum over library - press ...
Czech court rejects complaint,gives green light to neo-Nazi march ... Czech-born British architect Vaclav Kaplicky last year. The project of a nine-storey building shaped as a broad pyramid with rounded edges, dubbed "octopus," has raised emotional reactions and divided the public as well as experts and politicians into the camps of its supporters and opponents, including President Vaclav Klaus. Teams of experts and politicians have been discussing the circumstances of the new NK construction for a couple of months now. "I consider it a grandiose mystification.
No one on the level of the City Hall has discussed, considered and analysed the possibility of building Kaplicky's blob (as the design is also dubbed) at Vysehrad or at the Congress Centre," Bem said today. LN, however, writes the compromise solution resting in building the library at Vysehrad has been reached by representatives of the City Hall and the National Library. The daily wrote, however, it is not clear who was the first to present the idea. Bem said it is now the anti-monopoly office's (UOHS) turn to say whether it is possible to use public means for the library project documentation. Then the Culture Ministry must decide what money will be used for the construction, and only then is it possible to talk about where else than at Letna the library might possibly be built. The National Library is unhappy about the protracted negotiations since it has no more space to store books on its current premises at Klementinum in Prague's centre.
(Ceske Noviny)
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