Jaw-dropping designs for the Czech Republic’s most significant post-Communist building will be built as planned despite a huge political row, Future Systems’ director Jan Kaplicky vowed this week. BD Online | Amanda Baillieu asks , "Has Prague really moved on? Will Jan Kaplicky’s Prague Library become the next Cardiff Bay Opera House?" BD Online | Radio Praha | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
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Given that history remains present especially in Prague, I think it is more fitting to say 'first major public building since Communism' rather than 'post-Communism'... since the city has been due many public buildings for some time- and this is part of the controversy. The city will always be 'with-having-had-Communism', and ironically, Kaplicky's architecture responds to the concrete (in fact marble) history of Stalin directly on those grounds, and is more connected - spatially and formally- than one may at first think (or is it 'want'?).
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