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Architectural Festival in Pyongyang

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- The Fourth May 21 Architectural Festival, which was opened on March 23 at the People's Palace of Culture, is going on until Friday, the 50th anniversary of the Korean Union of Architects. The festival has been visited by a large number of people including local architects and foreigners.
    It, participated in by young dignified and promising architectural designers and technicians from designing institutes and scientific and educational institutions of the architectural field throughout the country, is unprecedented in scale and in the modernization level of designing.
    Presented to the festival were more than 300 drafts including "Arirang", "Cradle" and "Fragrance" and some 40 designing programs.
    The festival is divided into a prize contest of designs of dwelling houses in towns and rural communities, a prize contest of designs of town and rural districts and a contest of architectural designing programs.
    The participants in the festival have informed each other of and exchanged the achievements and experience they have gained in the efforts for implementing the architectural ideas of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    The displays will be estimated through amateurs' consideration, experts' consideration and state consideration.
    The festival is an important occasion in further developing the nation's architectural designing to meet the requirements of the new century.