Moss’s design received some strong reactions (it was immediately christened “the rubbish bags”) and the opposition of the architectural authorities: Valery Gergiev, after an initial declaration of support, then said he supported the idea but not the design; city architect Oleg Kharchenko branded it as “a glass structure with no form”; whilst the minister for culture took a neutral position accompanied by a declaration of willingness to set a new competition.
So, seven months after the disagreements, the new architects invited to compete are: Mario Botta, Arata Isozaki, Dominique Perrault, Erick van Egeraat, Hans Hollein… and Eric Owen Moss himself.
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