Architect Bojan Kovačević talks to "Vreme" about the General Staff and Belgrade on the water, and other "projects" that are suffocating the city
Bojan Kovačević lives in Admirala Geprat Street, surrounded by two progressive "urban planning projects". It's down to the river Belgrade on waterUp there, towards Slavija, is a ruin. General Staff where the authorities wanted to demolish and build luxury apartments, a hotel and a casino.
Kovačević, president of the Academy architecture of Serbia, in an interview for "Vreme" talks about these projects as cancer or even the "death" of Belgrade.
He is planning to establish a Council for the reconstruction of the General Staff, so that ideas do not have to wait for an undefined better time. "Renewal of the General Staff with this government is not expected because it can't do somersaults either forwards or backwards, but you shouldn't just passively wait for a divorce with them," Kovačević says for the new issue of "Vremena", which hits newsstands on Thursday (January 29).
We talked there and about other projects in Belgrade, about what the city is for. Belgrade on the water is also an unavoidable topic.
"You know how much time and energy, I guess and some knowledge, I invested in the fight to prevent Belgrade on the water from happening, to stop it, to rein it in," says Kovačević. "And now we have that expansion in hundreds of hectares, legally and urbanistically, without this society still resisting it."
He calls the ideas of some that the original Belgrade on the water will be demolished when the government changes, "nonsense". "The only thing we can do is a tense awareness that Belgrade has a tumor that can hardly be removed, because it has petrified, but to stop its metastasizing uphill."
You can read the entire interview with Bojan Kovačević in the new "Vremen", which hits newsstands on Thursday (January 29). Or subscribe now to printed or digital edition
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