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pressing. The architectural works that have not been accepted<br />

are in a worse position because they are tolerated and yet<br />

fixed in their concrete foundations for decades.” 17<br />

1979<br />

part of the Slovak National Gallery building<br />

in Bratislava was completed and a final inspection made.<br />

The whole premises have never been completed.<br />

in his book Československá architektura 1945–1977<br />

(Czechoslovak Architecture 1945–1977 ), the architect<br />

and historian Josef Pechar compared the SNG extension<br />

to Czech architect Prager’s work, this time to the building<br />

of the Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Federal<br />

Republic in Prague (together with Kadeřábek and Albrecht,<br />

the construction took place between 1966–1973, the<br />

headquarters of Slobodná Európa Radio since 1995, currently<br />

one of the buildings of the National Museum in Prague).<br />

The four wings of the Federal Assembly are structurally<br />

designed as bridge beams on end supports, similar to the<br />

front wing of the SNG. “In many cases today we see ways<br />

in which architecture copes with the large dimensions of<br />

steel structures and industrial design which has an ingenious<br />

impact on the outer architectural form as well as the<br />

interior.” 18 In this text, Pechar regards Prager’s and Dedeček’s<br />

buildings as innovations in construction and material<br />

on one side and as new sources of the current architectural<br />

form on the other.<br />

1980<br />

the photography publication Soudobá architektura<br />

ČSSR 19 (Current Architecture of the CSSR ) by Jaroslav<br />

Veber also featured the extension of the SNG in Bratislava.<br />

Czech architectural historian Radomíra Sedláková described<br />

it in the book as a layer arrangement of the robust bridging<br />

volumes that give a new scale to the whole surrounding<br />

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