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30.04.2008 - Contest for National Library in Prague was correct - UOHS
The NK has used an exception from the law on public orders and the UOHS has no objections to this step, but there are still doubts concerning the order for the project documentation, Pecina added.
The UOHS reacted to a request submitted by first deputy culture minister Frantisek Mikes.
Pecina stressed that the UOHS's latest answer is the same as the office's previous verdicts in this case.
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Pecina pointed out that the project documentation of the new library is a public order, and it cannot be given directly to the author of the winning design without a tender.
NK director Vlastimil Jezek disagrees with the opinion, saying Kaplicky can be assigned with the project, in compliance with the law on public orders.
The Future Systems studio is the only copyright owner, and any other entity could participate in the project only with the studio's consent, Jezek told CTK.
Pecina opposes this stance, arguing that Kaplicky's studio would give the order to some Czech designing company anyway and public money "wound get lost on the way."
Jezek pointed to an obstacle to the procedure since the NK has not signed a contract on the sale of the plot for the library construction on Prague's Letna plain.
The UOHS might ask Brussels for advice in the case of the architectonic contest, but it would have to wait for a response for a couple of months probably, Pecina said.
If the NK had doubts about the competition, it could cancel it itself, Pecina added.
The National Library, now seated in the Klementinum historical building in the centre of Prague, badly needs a new building very soon because it is running out of capacity and the conditions for keeping books are not suitable.
Kaplicky's project of a nine-storey building shaped as a broad pyramid with rounded edges, dubbed "octopus," has raised controversial reactions and divided the public as well as experts and politicians into the camps of its supporters and opponents.
Teams of experts and politicians have been discussing the circumstances of the new library's seat for a couple of months now and the NK fears that it will not have the new premises in time.
(Ceske Noviny)
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