The Vysočina Region announced an architectural competition for a library

Jihlava - After two years of preparations, the Vysočina region has announced a public architectural competition for the design of the urban, architectural, technical, and operational solution for the new Vysočina regional library building in Havlíčkův Brod. The conditions have been available since Friday on www.centralniadresa.cz, informed CTK today the director of the regional library, Tomáš Gec. The region has allocated two million crowns for the competition. Interested parties can apply until mid-June.
The Regional Library of Vysočina is expected to move from inadequate premises in the Old Town Hall in the center to a nearby hospital complex. The competition is in two rounds; the first round should demonstrate whether it is suitable and realistic to utilize the abandoned hospital building F for construction, or whether it would be better to demolish it.
According to the director's vision, the new headquarters should become a center for expert and scientific knowledge and information of universal character. The main focus should be a central reading room with enough workstations with computers, complemented by an information center, a daily press reading room, an internet club, and spaces for accompanying educational and cultural events.
The county's status as a former district library in Havlíčkův Brod was obtained in 2002. This was due both to political consensus and because it was the only one of five libraries in district towns established by the then district office. No other region has its regional library located outside the regional city. Meanwhile, the Jihlava municipality opened a new municipal library headquarters in the historic building of the Jesuit grammar school in 2003. It invested 45 million crowns in modernization, with ten million contributed by the Ministry of Culture for the restoration of the monument.
Other newly established regions also faced the same problem of inadequate spaces for regional libraries. For example, the Pardubice region received 71 million crowns from the Ministry of Culture for the reconstruction and expansion of the library in a historic building, and allocated 4.2 million of its own funds.
Last year, they also opened a multipurpose building for the regional library and educational center in Karlovy Vary. It was created by converting a military facility. The region obtained 68.5 million from the EU, the state contributed 6.8 million, and the region provided 10.3 million crowns.