The City of Ostrava will soon join the ranks of European and international centers of culture. That’s because work is underway in the Moravian-Silesian metropolis on a new concert hall comparable to the world’s most prestigious venues such as the Elbe Philharmonic in Hamburg, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Paris Philharmonic, or the Harpa in Reykjavik. The new building for 1,300 concertgoers will be deftly integrated with the current Culture Center designed by architect Jaroslav Fragner. The design was created by leading American architect Steven Holl and his studio in New York together with the Czech studio Architecture Acts.