calendar>>May 6. 2011 Juch 100
Architectural Festival Held
Pyongyang, May 6 (KCNA) -- The 11th May 21 Architectural Festival was held here from May 3 to 6.

The festival proceeded in such forms as prize contests of city formation planning and architectural design, design for updating light industrial factories and dwelling house design, public presentation of scientific papers on architecture and construction and competition for producing architectural designing program and multi-media.

Presented to it were at least 200 pieces of works for architectural design prize contest, more than 230 scientific papers and over 30 architectural designing programs and multi-media selected at provincial and city architectural festivals.

Drawing visitors were designs of the central part of Pyongyang, provincial, city and county seat formation blueprints suited to the features of local areas as they showed well the architecture development in the era of Songun..

Designs of large flower gardens and fountain parks and various decoration designs were produced in a peculiar way.

Its closing ceremony took place at the People's Palace of Culture Friday.

Present there were Pae Tal Jun, minister of State Construction Control, Pak Kil U, vice-chairman of the C.C., the Union of Architects of Korea, and officials, architects, technicians, teachers and researchers in the architecture and construction fields.

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