President launches stinging attack on planned library in newspaper article

President Vaclav Klaus has launched a stinging attack on the design of a new National Library building planned for Prague's Letna Plain. In an article in Wednesday's Mlada fronta Dnes, Mr Klaus said the green blob-like building by Prague-born London-based architect Jan Kaplicky was "extremely immodest and wilful to the point of arrogance". The president hit out at what he said was a one-sided discussion of the building, in which the views of the "unqualified" were disregarded. Mr Klaus also took a swipe at Jan Kaplicky's work in general, saying he had not built much and most of his ideas were restricted to models in exhibitions. Last week the president said he was prepared to use his own body to prevent the building of the library, which is set for completion in 2010.