Slaskie

2nd July 2010

“This is unimaginable arrogance by officials. The Spodek is for residents of this region as important as the Eiffel tower is for Paris,”

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Slaskie architects are up in arms at plans to renovate the exterior of Katowice’s signature building, the Spodek [meaning saucer in Polish]. Katowice City Hall shocked the architectural community by announcing not only that the building is to be covered in stainless steel tiles, but that they’ve already awarded the tender to a company to carry out the work.

“This is unimaginable arrogance by officials. The Spodek is for residents of this region as important as the Eiffel tower is for Paris,” commented local architect Andrzej Grzyybowski.

“Messing about with the Spodek is a scandal of unbelievable magnitude. The blame for this lies with the president, because without him no decisi ...

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