A decade’s worth of discussion about building a concert hall for classical music has finally resulted in commissioning of a usability study for the project. The Henning Larsen studio will work with Buro Happold and AEA Consulting on the study whose results will serve as the basis for giving a green light to the project. Serious discussion about the city’s lack of a real concert hall began in 2010. The city’s entire political spectrum now seems to have agreed with the goal of building it, but with the price expected to climb to as much as CZK 7 billion, the city is proceeding cautiously. The favored location for the Vltava Philharmonic Hall is in Prague 7 – Holesovice along the banks of the river at the edge of the unused Bubny station. “Prague doesn’t just need a modern concert hall, it deserves one,” said deputy mayor Petr Hlavacek. “We should try to pay back this debt of entire generations. But we want to be careful, so first we’re having a detailed analysis carried out to decide if we’re going to continue with the next phase or not.”
