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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade was founded in 1958 and its situated in New Belgrade, on the left bank of the river Sava. The edifice was erected between 1961 and 1965 after the design of Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović, awarded the October Prize of the city of Belgrade in 1965. This..

Hotel Prisank, located in Kranjska gora, was one of the fist and best examples of slovenian architetural regionalism. It consciously uses basic archetypal elements and artistic principles, which correspond to natural enviroment around the site. This was in the period of new sensibility which..

Ivanka Raspopović (Belgrade, 1930-2015) was a Serbian Modernist architect. She started her career in the construction company Rad from 1945 to 1955. Later she moved to Srbijaprojekt, where she stayed until 1960. From 1961 to 1964 she worked in the company Zlatibor, and then again in Srbijaprojekt..

The bus terminal in Podgorica near the city center was built in 1968. Kana Radević created an architecture that contributed significantly to the identity of Podgorica. With its massing, form and materials certainly was influenced by Le Corbusier’s building of the Parliament in Chandigarh, which..

The monument commemorates the tragic epilogue of the battles fought by Partisan Cankar's battalion in Selška and Poljanska Valleys in late December 1941 and the first days of January 1942. Having occupied the territory of Upper Carniola, the Nazis intended to quell the resistance uprising. At the..

Recent series are focusing on architecture in three coastal cities in Croatia: Rijeka (European Capital of Culture 2020), Split and Ubli. All three segments - Photo-construction of Architecture: Rijeka, Late Modernism in Split and Terra nUBLLIus - are deprived of any dynamics and people, using..

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The volumetric simplicity and symmetry of the series of villas that Dobrović built in Dubrovnik in the decade of the nineteen-thirties, relates then at the same time to the rules of International Style, and to the local tradition of country mansions built by the Dubrovnik elite. The simultaneous..

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[h]The Manifesto[/h]
The cross section of Villa Adonis resembles a physical manifesto of Functionalism that has been adapted to the Mediterranean climate and to the sloping terrain. Its introverted volume rises above an open porch on four reinforced concrete columns, while its back leans against..

Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić is a Macedonian architect, planner, and urban designer, who played a significant role in the masterplan and reconstruction of Skopje after the 1963 earthquake. Initially she worked specifically in the team for social planning with Polservice, the Polish consultants,..

Nives Kalin Vehovar (Ljubljana, 1932-2007) was a Slovenian architect and designer. She graduated at the Faculty of architecture in Ljubljana in 1958. She was employed as an architect in several Slovenian engineering offices and collaborated mostly with her husband Franc Vehovar. They worked on..

One of the gestures of international solidarity, initiated by the disaster of 1963 was the creation of the outstanding international collection of modern art trough donations. This action was initiated by artist, historians of arts, international associations, museums and galleries from all over..

On women in architecture in Serbia, we certainly cannot talk without mentioning Ljiljana Bakić, an author who, individually and in cooperation with her husband Dragoljub Bakić, designed and built a large number of buildings in Belgrade and other cities in Serbia, as well as abroad. Today, the..

Pionir Sports Hall is the largest sports hall in Belgrade after the Belgrade Arena. It was open 24 May 1973 near the sports complex "Pioneer" which is part of SRC "Tašmajdan". It was renamed to Aleksandar Nikolić Hall on February 2016 in honor of the legendary basketball player and coach..

In the 1960, the widespread construction of cooperative flats in Slovenia triggered the development of compact individual urban complexes in the hope that they would become a viable alternative to the high-rise apartment buildings that prevailed at that time. A campaign "apartments made to our..

BS 7 (also called as Ruski car) is a block settlement in the northern part of Ljubljana, built in the early 1970's, on the agricultural land of nearby villages Ježica and Stožice. The neighborhood consists of three main streets Bratovševa ploščad, Glinškova ploščad and Muchar street. It is..

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In the middle of a dense pine forest of the village of Krvavica in Baško polje, not far from Makarska, lies a children's maritime sanatorium for the treatment and rehabilitation of children with lung diseases. The resort for children with lung diseases was built and managed by the Yugoslav..

The Monument to Freedom in Berane is located on the top of the Jasikovac hill (Jasikovac forest park), on the right bank of the Lim River. It symbolizes all the struggles for freedom of the inhabitants of Berane and the region of Polimlje (liberation struggles against the Turks during the 19th..