The Skopje with the present look of its square does not look like a capital and resembles more a little provincial town. However, the government project is going to turn it into a metropolis. Its identity needs to be reinvented. Baroque and Classicism, as styles for the projected buildings, are quite justified. The urban methodology principles impose such a way of building. These were some of the comments of the participants in the Thursday debate Skopje 2014 organized by the recently established Dimitrie Cuposki Institute, whose founders distanced themselves from having any relations with certain political parties.

At the invitation of the founders of the Institute, which had its public debut Thursday, the authors of the City House and the Constitutional Court, Kosta Mangarovski and Slobodan Zivkovski, stood up in defense of their works. In the light of the public reactions to the ideas for urbanization of the center of the city, Mangarovski appealed for easing of tension and unification.