Diary: Heritage experts set a deadline for the renovation of the Tugendhat Villa in Brno

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09.03.2009 09:35

Brno - The Brno city hall has received a deadline by which it must repair the listed functionalist villa Tugendhat. The regional heritage authorities have set an unextendable deadline of the end of 2010. The city must repair the roof, terraces, sewage system, and other components of the monument by the assigned deadlines within the year. If it fails to meet these deadlines, the state may, in extreme cases, expropriate the monument, writes today's Brněnský deník.
For example, heritage authorities have given the city a deadline of the end of June 2010 to repair the sewage system. If the city does not complete the restoration, there is a risk of expropriation under the monument care law in extreme cases. The regional office can propose it if the owner of the monument permanently neglects their obligations, thereby threatening its preservation.
According to Deputy Mayor Ladislav Macek (ČSSD), the city will meet the set deadlines. "They are realistic, they are achievable," he said today to ČTK. However, according to him, the city would now prefer not to issue contracts for the repairs of individual parts of the villa mentioned in the heritage authorities' decision. "We still want to reach the standard reconstruction of the entire building," he stated.
Only if this proves impossible due to delays, will the city resort to dividing the contract. The delays refer to the fact that participants in a five-year-old and annulled competition for the designer repeatedly appeal and demand the continuation of the original tender. "Due to these legal obstructions, progress is quite difficult. You can take a step that will cost something, order work, and then it will be useless to us because we will have to forcibly proceed differently," Macek said. A different approach than the one the city is currently planning could theoretically be mandated by the antimonopoly office or potentially a court.
Villa Tugendhat is the only Czech modern art building listed as a UNESCO cultural heritage site. The city has been planning its restoration for eight years. The restoration has not yet begun, precisely due to the five-year-old disputed competition for the designer. It has been addressed by courts and the antimonopoly office, and finally, city councilors declared it illegal and annulled it last year. A new tender is now being prepared. The conditions of the competition should be approved by the councilors in March.

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