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Design and construction costs for the new National Gallery planned for Városliget have risen from HUF 26 billion to HUF 72 billion, writes G7, explaining the details of a recent amendment to the contract. In 2017, the state company Városliget Zrt. It allocated HUF 26 billion for the gallery building, which amounted to HUF 48 billion during the planning process.
According to the portal, the price increase is now due to the fact that with the completion of the National Gallery plans, construction cost plans had to be updated and hundreds of millions more had to be spent on engineering tasks. .
Which is really ironic: everything happens without even a contract for the construction of the new National Gallery. The government suspended construction of the museum after the capital indicated that it would not support the construction of more new buildings in the City Park due to the further reduction in green spaces. However, László Baán, the ministerial commissioner responsible for the Liget project, indicated that the government had not abandoned its plan, but had only assumed self-control in the current political situation. According to him, a new gallery is needed in the long term, and the key theme of the Liget Project is that if it is not built, the “international visibility of the investment will remain under the radar”.
And if it’s the Liget project as a whole: with the recent increase in the construction cost of the National Gallery, the total cost of the project will continue to rise.
The government allocated HUF 157 billion for the development of the City Park in the capital in 2015 and it was planned to complete it by 2019 according to the government decree on the matter, but already in 2017 it seemed that this could not be maintained: the total cost was estimated at 230 billion and the procurement procedure for all buildings was not even announced. At the end of last year, the contracted amounts were already 150 billion HUF, which immediately jumps to 222 with the expected costs of the National Gallery, summarizes the portal.
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