Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a bright red model of the Slovak National Gallery forms the centrepiece of the Czech and Slovak Pavilion, which questions whether the countries' Soviet architecture should be saved or demolished.
Entitled The Care for Architecture: Asking the Arché of Architecture to Dance, the Biennale exhibition questions whether buildings like the extension to the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava can ever be disassociated from the political regime.
Designed by Slovak architect Vladimír Dede?ek in the 1960s and built in the 1970s, the bridging gallery building is seen by many as a symbol of the country's communist era, so plans for its renovation have been contentious.
Photograph by Ben Markel
"We are fighting in [formerly] communist countries with the opinion that buildings that were built in the late Modern style are actually communist palaces and buildings that are associated with the regime," explained Vit Halada, one of the architects behind the project.
"There is a lot of very negative opinion from ordinary people or even the informed public," he told Dezeen.
"They are trying to destroy this legacy and tear it down, because in their minds and in their opinions these buildings are too monumental, a celebration of the old regime, and they shouldn't be allowed to live anymore."

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