They broke ground today on the new concert hall in Ostrava.
The eastern town, where Leos Janacek died, has a Philharmonic orchestra and a May festival named after him.
‘A faraway country of which we know little,’ as an unlamented British PM once said.
The architect is the New Yorker, Steve Holl.
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