Photo: Private archiveAfter the building of the Old Post Office, another cultural property will be demolished - Ložionica below Mostarska petlje, in order to create a new space for the commercial facilities of Belgrade on the water
Just as the Old Post Office building in Savska street, which is a cultural asset, is currently being demolished under the guise of reconstruction and rehabilitation, in order to create space for commercial facilities within Belgrade on the water, so will the Ložionice building below Mostarska petlje, an old cultural asset, be demolished. 100 years.
The project is financed and implemented by the Government of the RS Office for Information Technologies and Electronic Administration, which is under the platform "Serbia Creates". The cost of the works is 62,5 million euros. Project documentation for the Ložionice complex was prepared by Mašinoprojekt Kopring doo, which also prepared the urban planning project for the Old Post Office in Savska.
The citizens' association "Naša mesna zajednica" warns that "this project does not envisage reconstruction and rehabilitation, but the demolition of the cultural property of the existing Ložionice building and the construction of a new Ložionice with accompanying incompatible contents."
They say that "the Office for Information Technologies and Electronic Administration is an investor, although both the plot and the Ložionice building are public property, and the Office only has the right to use the building", and they note that "the merger of the nine plots on which the Ložionice complex is located in one construction plot within Belgrade on the water."
Five times as many squares
The project plans a multifunctional center for the needs of creative industries and the IT sector - a six-story Ložionice Annex of 17.000 square meters and an underground garage with over 180 parking spaces.
"The existing Ložionice building, a cultural property under previous protection, is one-story and has about 3.600 square meters, and the planned Ložionice Annex, which will have three times as many square meters, will be predominantly for commercial purposes," says the association.
They remind that in November 2021 the Government of the RS initiated an architectural competition for the Creative and Innovative Multifunctional Center "Ložionica" and that the documentation included a Report on the state of construction of the Ložionica building of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade. In the conclusion of this report, it was stated that the Ložionica building is in a very bad condition, as well as that "it can only bear its own weight, so any addition is impossible even after rehabilitation".
"The investor, the Office for Information Technologies and Electronic Administration, clearly understood this conclusion of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in the wrong way," the association points out.
A unique ambient unit
The Ložionice complex with a water tower was a drive for steam locomotives that went to the main railway station on Savski Square. Ložionica forms a unique ambient unit with the Railway Station and was very important for the development of the railway junction of Belgrade.
"Instead of the Ložionice complex being adequately revitalized in accordance with its cultural and historical value, there was systematic destruction and neglect of one more in a series of our cultural assets," according to the association of citizens "Naša mesna zajednica". "Now the purpose of Ložionica is changing and its essence is being lost because it does not fit the investor's vision."
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