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#openheritage New purpose for a public building
About this process
An historic building in the centre of Bratislava. The building closed down after years of unsuccessful attempts by the municipality to keep the market alive. Years later, a cultural organization tries to re-open the market rethinking the programme of the space.
We are a civic association, the Old Market Hall Alliance.
We address the issue of an empty market hall that has been closed for years, proposing a series of events to regenerate the Old-Market and make it cultural-hub open to the city.
The City Hall tried to run the markat again as a mono-functional market, but there were only about 6 stalls left inside, and all the others were closed down, so it was not a real market. The tenants were there the whole week, not competing with prices, probably even having the same owner, and they did not really generate revenue for the market hall, as the market only had losses, about 30.000 euros a year, without undergoing a reconstruction. The reason this happened was because those managing it had a very narrow focus: a market hall had to be a market hall.
We think the Market Hall can be something more than just a place to go shopping!
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