Gočár's Hradec Králové Gymnasium is preparing for reconstruction

Hradec Králové - Gymnázium J.K. Tyla in Hradec Králové today began moving to temporary premises in the former Institute for the Deaf and Mute on Pospíšilova Street. The gymnasium building is to undergo repairs. The first to be moved are the offices on the highest floors of the building, said the director of the gymnasium, Robert Novák, to ČTK.
    "We started at eight in the morning. We hired a moving company with ten people and two trucks. Six school employees are also helping," said Robert Novák.
    The Královéhradecké Gymnázium J. K. Tyla is moving according to the original plan, even though the competition for its reconstruction was canceled by the region in October. The gymnasium will begin teaching in the temporary premises on November 23. "By Saturday, we would like to move all the offices and classrooms, then the classes will start to move. We also want to connect the computers on Saturday so that they are ready for teaching," said Robert Novák.
    The repair of the monument-protected gymnasium building, designed by the prominent architect of Czech Cubism and Functionalism, Josef Gočár, is expected to cost about 100 million crowns. The region canceled the tender for repairs due to suspicions that the so-called lottery narrowing the selection of candidates was manipulated. The police had previously alerted the region to a possible violation of the law. The region has announced a new tender, which will be without a lottery. Due to the new competition, the start of the school's repairs will be delayed by about four months, with construction possibly starting in June or July 2012.
    The region invested 20 million crowns in the renovations of the former institute for the deaf and mute on Pospíšilova Street, to which the gymnasium is moving. During the reconstruction of their school, the gymnasium students will use the gym of the construction industry school or the cafeteria on Hradecká Street.
    The building of the institute for the deaf and mute will continue to serve regional secondary schools even after the gymnasium's repairs. After the gymnasium students, the building is to be used by students of the Hradec Commercial Academy. In the first phase of the reconstruction of the building, builders have adjusted the interior layout of the 19th-century building. "34 new classrooms and 20 offices and cabinets have been created. Furthermore, builders modernized all the utilities, introduced new data networks, repaired the elevator, and built sanitation facilities. Further phases of the reconstruction are planned later," said Deputy Governor Vladimír Derner recently.