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Chances are not many zoos in the world house a stack of disassembled cubist buildings. The two wooden houses, designed by renowned Czech cubist architect Josef Gočár in 1920, have been lying in storage at the lower end of the Prague zoo property since the 2002 flood. The zoo has been talking about reassembling and restoring the flood-damaged houses for years now, but apparently lacked the finances to do so. Things are finally looking up. Last month, the heritage department of the city council recommended that funds for repairing Gočár’s houses – estimated to amount to CZK 30 million – be incorporated into the city’s 2009 budget. Reconstruction could start next year, and, once complete, these unique structures would beContinue Reading