Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“Сличне ствари се дешавају и данас. Данас је актуелна и судбина Добровићевог дела, зграде Генералштаба, недалеко од Савског трга, на раскрсници Немањине улице и Улице кнеза Милоша, коме прети можда иста сурова судбина рушења због несхватања његовог значаја. Да ли смо ишта научили из својих грешака? Или пак нисмо, па и даље чинимо исте? И лутамо кроз време и простор и заборављамо оно што нас описује и краси. Морамо поштовати себе, како би нас и други поштовали и уважавали.”
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Police Center Operative Headquarters, 1979-1983
Belgrade, Serbia
Architect: Spasoje Krunic
“In terms of character and the intensity of manifestation, domestic soc-realism can be divided into moderate and extreme. The first was marked with a certain amount of creativity within available programmes and modest technical methods, while the other was oriented towards creatively minimalist, schematized and propagandist architecture.”
Photo challenge: This new city panorama is visible from where?
From Belgrader: “A business beehive during the DAY and a loved party destination during the NIGHT, New Belgrade is a jewel of European modernism and one of the most contemporary, future-embracing neighborhoods in the region.”
“Although Belgrade, the capital of modern day Serbia, is geographically a stones throw from Novi Beograd, the two cities are utterly opposed in disposition. The communist era architects and town planners built Novi Beograd with a ruthless lack of sympathy towards the old historic core of Belgrade. Classical and elegant – versus brutal, exacting, and autocratically monumental. Down to it’s name, the new Belgrade was designed and planned to be absolutely contemporary.”
Lively architecture of Belgrade |
Photos: © Dzodan
All the roads lead to New Belgrade. The oldest and the newest, Old Sava bridge and the Bridge over Ada.
Photo: © Dzodan
Redevelopment and reuse of Belgrade industrial buildings - done magnificently as usual - Before and after - Mikser House, Karađorđeva st
© Mikser Beograd