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Baščaršija - Obala Kulina bana Sarajevo City Hall was designed in 1891 by the Czech architect Karel Pařík, but criticisms by the minister, Baron Benjamin Kallay, caused him to stop working on the project. It was initially the largest and most representative building of the Austro-Hungarian period in Sarajevo and served as the city hall. Alexander Wittek, who worked on the project in 1892 and 1893, fell ill and died in 1894 in Graz, and the work was completed by Ćiril Iveković. The edifice was built in a stylistic blend of historical eclecticism, predominantly in the pseudo-Moorish expression, for which the stylistic sources were found in the Islamic art of Spain and North Africa. Arch. Karel Pařík, Alexander Wittek and Ćiril Iveković 1892-96 It was formally opened on April 20, 1896, and handed over to the City Authority, which occupied the property until 1949, when it was handed over to the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On August 25, 1992, Serbian shelling during the Siege of Sarajevo caused the complete destruction of the library, the majority of the books could not be saved from the flames. The structural repair of the building was planned to be carried out in four stages, from 1996 to 2014.