"Belgrade on the water is in a deficit with parks, squares and other public spaces, so they would have to make at least something that would resemble and remind of a city that has its own public spaces from what is left of the square behind the railway station," says architect Marko Jakšić
We visited Milan's Prada Foundation museum, where the boundaries between contemporary art, luxury and Instagram aesthetics are blurred. Can capital and avant-garde be under the same roof?
The 21st Belgrade International Week of Architecture - BINA is underway. Its central theme relies on the experiences of the European Union, which in recent years favors the transformation of existing structures instead of new construction
"The Association of Architects of Serbia has not determined either the content of the plan or the topic of the public architectural competition for Ušće, and therefore bears no responsibility for something that a part of the public complains about. Remarks should be sent to the decision makers"
Republic Square already had a clock, and now it is getting a new one - but pedestrians will not gather around it, but cars will circulate. Mayor Aleksandar Šapić announces it as a new symbol of Belgrade, which, I guess, should be the aquarium at Usce.
Architect Branislav Mitrović claims that the aquarium at Ušće is not just another dolphinarium, but a natural history museum that will occupy less than two percent of the total area of the park at Ušće
The construction of the Aquarium will not threaten the park at Ušće, there will be no felling, but tree transplanting, says academician and professor Branislav Mitrović
"The Republic got involved in deciding the fate and profiling of the city by proclaiming some kind of strategic interest of the state as superior to everything. Well, just look at that Expo, we should all believe in its general interest for Belgrade and Serbia"
Architect Bojan Kovačević talks to "Vreme" about the General Staff and Belgrade on the water, and other "projects" that are suffocating the city
"I understand the apprehension and possible reflexive resistance to every new Spatial Plan and investment. The only way to restore trust is to leave the work of urban planning to responsible professionals who will take care of the public interest. This is also the way to the recovery of our society in general, not only in the field of architecture, but also in other areas exposed to corruption and partocracy."
World-renowned writer and curator Nicolas Bouriot (1965, France) was a guest in Belgrade on the occasion of collaboration on the catalog of the Serbian pavilion at the recently concluded Venice Biennale of Architecture. The Serbian pavilion in Venice is called Disentanglement: New spaces, presented a colossal multi-layered woven surface that almost levitates in the space of the pavilion and that, during the Biennale, tears itself and returns to a ball of yarn, as a reflection of the relationship between the work of the hand and the process of structuring the form. The starting point of the group of authors - D. Ereš, J. Mitrović, I. Pantić, S. Krstć, I. Najdanović, P. Laušević - was Belgrade fist (1963, B. Čolak-Antić), the world's first robotic bionic hand designed for prosthetic purposes
As a society, neither at the end of the eighties, nor ten or fifteen years ago, were we able to recognize the perniciousness of simpletons and kitsch. We didn't see that singing fountains, crazy New Year's lights, idiotic monuments, and all that followed by media hype, directly announce totalitarianism, ruins and death.
The works of architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Soto de More are portraits of modern Porto and a story of mutual respect and friendship.
The third largest city in Serbia, Niš, is becoming a large construction site - old houses in the city center are being torn down, and the construction of multi-storey buildings begins. Architects warn that the load on the infrastructure is not taken into account
While uncertainty hangs over the fate of the General Staff and the Belgrade Fair, a voice of support arrives from Slovenia. The leading professional institutions of this country signed a letter in which they provide moral and professional support to the appeal of the Serbian professional public for the preservation of two key symbols of the modernist architecture of the former Yugoslavia
Ten years after it was formally announced, the "Belgrade on Water" project is expanding faster than ever. Đorđe Miketić, civil activist and one of the initiators of the initiative "Belgrade Remains", talks about the "urbicide" in Belgrade in the new issue of "Vremena".
In the frenzy of political events and dramas in Serbia, ten days ago, a spectacular multi-level event brought together academia, politics, architecture, Europe, Novi Sad, micropolitics and a top artistic event. The news that Vladan Joler, artist, professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and founder of the "Share" foundation, won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture resonated as if it were some kind of collective victory, or at least the promise of a good outcome.
Vladan Joler from Novi Sad dedicated the "Silver Lion" award at the Venice Architecture Biennale to students in Serbia, and told his colleagues not to cooperate with corrupt regimes
The authors of the teams of Serbia and Montenegro at the Venice Architecture Biennale are from Belgrade. The first responded to the given theme "Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective" by combining knitting with architecture, and the second - among
The exhibition "The Public of Architecture", marking the 20th anniversary of the Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA), proposes the establishment of a Center for Architecture with the intention of bringing this most public of the arts as close to the public as possible.
Professor Vladimir Lojanica, dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, is the author of the best solution for arranging the area of the municipality of Čukarica between the streets of Blagoj Parović, Knez Višeslav, Miloj Zakić and Vladimir Rolović, the Association of Belgrade Architects announced on Thursday (May 1).
"For the last decade, Belgrade has been guided by decisions and personal wills, actually one, non-urban, which is radically anti-urban. Those people and that man probably need a translation from Serbian to Serbian when the cultural aspects of urbanism are mentioned."
The programs of the jubilee 20th Belgrade International Week of Architecture will talk about reaching new architectural values, understanding the city, nurturing local urban oases...
After several decades, the building of the Subotica National Theater was built, but without the large hall, which was the main reason for the renovation.
The protected cultural and historical complex Krunski venac, one of the most beautiful parts of the capital and few witnesses of the secession, seems to have no one to guard it
A competition has been announced for a program-spatial concept for urban and landscape revitalization of the area between Blagoj Parović, Knez Višeslav, Miloj Zakić and Vladimir Rolović streets in Čukarica
Commenting on the Serbian government's decision to amend the Spatial Plan of Special Purpose Areas, the president of the Academy of Architecture of Serbia said that the Belgrade project is on the water - a big fraud
