Tender for prestige

<>Reconstruction of the Saski and Brühl Palaces is currently the most important, prestigious and most complex investment to be undertaken by the city. Its complexity lies partly in the amount of opposition to the project, particularly that coming from several respected Polish architects who argue that the square dedicated to the Unknown Soldier should remain an inviolable symbol of Polish history. However, the greatest complaint raised by the project's opponents is that the investor is to be a private firm. So far, the city authorities have stuck to their guns. "Warsaw's president, Lech Kaczyński, has made it quite clear that the palaces are to be rebuilt," insisted Michał Borowski, the city's chief architect, whilst introducing journalists to the reconstruction plan for these two palaces, which were destroyed during the Second World War. The city will make available 19,000 sqm of land on Piłsudski Square, while the investor is to finance the project in return for b