Thank-you Lidija.
New Belgrade
was a no-man's-land between the borders of the two
empires: the Ottoman's Orient and the Austro-Hungarian Occident.
The potential of this " tabula rasa site" was that it could be completely
planned from scratch. The first post war plan of New Belgrade,
"Sketch for the regulation of Belgrade on the left bank of the river Sava",
was designed in 1946, by one of the most prominent modern
yugoslavian architects, Nikola Dobrović. He planned a radial plan
of administrative sector with some twenty buildings. Dobrović's
radial plan was rejected by the competitors, they proposed a functional
organisation of orthogonal urban structure with the two main
state and party buildings as the centre pieces of the urbanistic
composition. But in 1950, the whole process of planning and construction
of New Belgrade abruptly stopped as a consequence of the political
and economic crisis arising from the break-up of Yugoslavia
with the Soviet Union and the Eastern block. When New Belgrade
was eventually, largely realized, in the 1960s and 1970s,
it was not as the complex centre of the Federation,
but as a city of another predominant function, that of housing.
Inside of the SIV, frozen scenery.
Savezno Izvrsno Vece.
It is a governmental building that never have been used.
New-Belgrade from above.
Genex tower.
Empty building, or never finished used as a commercial support.
In the middle of the buildings, a single swing.
Kindergarden (red building)
One person bench.
Public space.
New Belgrade.