Hospital at Libreville project (Gabonese Republic – central Africa). The architectural, design and engineering company HELIKA, member of the multinational group Obermeyer, has recently been realizing designing works for the construction of a modern teaching hospital in the Gabon capital Libreville . The hospital with the capacity of 300 beds, with a complete background and many specialized wards will grow on the main street leading along the coast. The Gabonese Republic provides the investment backup for the project.

HELIKA provides all architectural and designing works connected with the project implementation. The commencement of building is to take place this year.

The second outstanding project in the Gabonese Republic that HELIKA is concerned with, is that of an international airport in Libreville . The new airport should regularly check-out up to ten times the present annual capacity, which at the current terminal is approx. 400,000 passengers. The new airport should thus improve and encourage the modern service between Gabon and the entire world.

The third project, nowadays in the stage of architectural studies and designs, is a cathedral for the Libreville city. The project of the cathedral was thoroughly discussed during the last visit of HELIKA architects with the local Catholic Church authority, archbishop Basile Mve-Engone. The archbishop is coming to Prague these days, in order to discuss the development and direction of the study with Czech architects.

Gabonese Republic . The Gabonese Republic is situated in central Africa in the coastal area of the Guinea Gulf . The wide lowlands along the coast reach far inland. Gabon is rich in natural resources of raw materials, especially oil resources. The whole country covers the area of 267,667 sq km and is inhabited by 1.3 million people.

In 1839 France declared protectorate over the territory of what is now Gabon . Before the end of the 19^th century, France terminated the colonization of the whole territory of Gabon . From 1886 till 1910 Gabon was a part of French Kongo, later of French Equatorial Africa, since 1946 an overseas territory of France . Since 1958 the country existed as an autonomous republic in the structure of French Community, and the absolute independence was declared in 1960. Since 1967 a system of government of one leading political party was applied; the party was sustaining the pro-Western political and economic orientation of the country. In 1990 pluralist system was introduced, but not until after open social unrest in 1994 the government of national unity with the participation of political opposition was established. Since 1967 El Hadj Omar (Albert-Bernard) Bongo has been the president of the republic. The capital of Gabon is Libreville with its population of 180,000 people.

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