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uilding, currently housing the directorate of the Slovak National<br />

Museum (originally the agricultural museum) and the area of Park<br />

kultúry a oddychu (now being demolished). But, in Dedeček’s<br />

words, the main “inspiration for the idea to complete the SNG<br />

with a modern facing wing that would enclose the yard in the<br />

spirit of Hillebrandt’s original concept” was always the SNG<br />

director Dr. Karol Vaculík (DEDEČEK, undated [1975], p. 1).<br />

The contemporary guidelines Smernica pre výstavbu mesta<br />

Bratislavy, from a group led by the city’s chief architect Milan<br />

Hladký and chief city planner Milan Beňuška in October 1963,<br />

states: “In terms of political administration, the commercial<br />

and social centre should be developed in the context of the<br />

current centre, expanded to subsume the tracts attached to<br />

the Danube at Podhradské nábrežie and near the harbour, reassessing<br />

the meaning of the Danube river area, building it<br />

up as the city’s most frequented zone and thus emphasizing<br />

the <strong>high</strong>ly social function of these spaces... By 1970, a road<br />

bridge to be constructed over the Danube in the Rybné námestie<br />

space.” 13 Thus some of the riverbank’s historical architecture<br />

was, in keeping with 1960s urban plans, demolished,<br />

in part in connection with the Most SNP bridge construction.<br />

Among these were burgher residences on Lodná ulica behind<br />

Belluš’ Hotel Devín; some of the residences survived on Ulica<br />

Paulínyho-Tótha, but the breadth and scale of the riverside had<br />

changed. In this spirit, in 1965 the Slovenský ústav pamiatkovej<br />

starostlivosti (the historical sites institute) issued the following<br />

judgment on modernizing and refurbishing the riverside,<br />

and Dedeček’s study for SNG renovation and construction:<br />

“In principle, the view of this comprehensive urbanism solution<br />

for the entire block and the modernity of the architectural style<br />

is correct; the historical buildings in this quarter are physically<br />

worn, and disrupt the additional new construction that would<br />

13 BEŇUŠKA, Milan – HLADKÝ, Milan. Smernice pre výstavbu mesta<br />

Bratislavy. Bratislava : Útvar hlavného architekta mesta Bratislavy,<br />

October 1963, p. 10, 15 and 22.<br />

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