"No one will, however, put this frankly to Mr Kaplicky because no one wants to look lilke an 'uncultural' person.
So they are waiting for me to ban it and to look as an uncultural person," Pecina said. Kaplicky's London-based Future Systems studio won the international contest for the project last year. 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. The National Library team as well as other expert groups have been CzechRep may face trial over recognition of qualifications ...
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(Ceske Noviny)
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