International Property News
Prague - Houses on Letna plain
15th February 2008
The Prague City Hall has decided to change the Letn plain neighbourhood and build houses on the extensive empty area that now only serves as a site for travelling circuses' performances and soccer matches, Mlad fronta Dnes writes Friday.
The Prague authority wants to declare a tender for the reconstruction of the Letn plain that would affect a nearby Milada Horkova street and an adjacent park.
However, the question of the construction of a new National Library building should first be settled, Vclav Krlcek from the zoning department says.
Under the design of Czech-born British architect Jan Kaplick who won the competition for the new library building, it should be constructed in the Prague-Letn locality. However, the project has met with protests of some Prague councillors and it is therefore not yet clear whether the library will be built on Letna or elsewhere.
According to the plans for the reconstruction of the Letna area, two new buildings would dominate it. One of them would host an archaeological museum where a part of the collections from the Prague National Museum would be moved, and another would become a modern concert hall.
Along with the library the two new buildings would form the city's cultural acropolis.
However, the project has already provoked negative reactions from the junior governing Green Party (SZ) that points out that the plan for the lay-out of Letn has been completed and that there is no need to consider further construction.
A commission that would assess Letna reconstruction proposals discussed the planned changes last November already, but it adjourned its meeting until it is clear what will happen with the new National Library.
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