In the last 10 years, an average of 41,9 tropical nights were recorded in Belgrade during the year. That's a little less than half of all summer nights. Why is this so and what can be changed
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.
Due to the urban planning project of the building at Kneza Miloša 42, the tenants of Kneza Miloša 44 and Vojvoda Milenko 13 are at risk of having their windows and terraces bricked up and the foundations of the building being undermined.
Ušće park is fenced off under cover of night. Activists protest, the ministry claims that it is about the safety of passers-by
At the forum on the construction of the aquarium "At the mouth of two rivers under the cranes" it was said that 28 mature trees will be removed at the mouth and that not all construction is progress
New research data on corruption in urban planning show that most experts believe that space is not treated as a public good, but as a marketable commodity whose valuation and planning are too often left to private interests
The publication of new renderings of the future aquarium on the Instagram account of the Mitarh bureau met with criticism for interventions in public green areas. While the authors of the project emphasize the preservation of the openness of the space, opponents warn of long-term consequences for the park.
Architect Bojan Kovačević talks to "Vreme" about the General Staff and Belgrade on the water, and other "projects" that are suffocating the city
At the location of the future Marina Dorćol settlement in Belgrade, there are no significant deviations of polluting materials in the soil in relation to the maximum allowed values, announced the City Institute for Public Health
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
The fight between the security of the building site in New Belgrade's Block 4 and the citizens who do not allow the construction of a building that will "brick up" their windows is just a new example of the struggle of the people of Belgrade against investor urbanism
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".
"Changing existing practices in Belgrade is necessary. The key to solving urban issues today is the demand to overcome the gap between urban and non-urban, built and unbuilt, which has long burdened the entire area of urban-architectural research and practice"
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
In recent years, Belgrade has been designed by foreign architects. It is not known who hires them or according to what criteria they get jobs, but they impose an architecture on Belgrade that has nothing to do with it. Who are they and how many are there?
The plan for the block near the Botanical Garden is to replace part of the houses with multi-story buildings
It is not known who invited the British company "Wilkinson Eyre" to design Hall 1 at the Belgrade Fair, who told them what should be in it, who will pay for all that and why no competition was organized
In addition to the hotel and the market, the urban project also mentions the construction of a residential-commercial complex consisting of six buildings of eight to nine floors, which will be connected with common underground floors. The professional public warns about the shortcomings of the project, but there is no point in it
Tenants of Čingrijina and surrounding streets in the municipality of Zvezdara demand to prevent the concreting of greenery in front of the building where the Chinese shopping center is opening.
What do citizens - ordinary people without a background - face when an investor decides to build a giant eight-story building five meters from their house? What does life look like with a view of the concrete, while construction workers' butts are falling on the terrace, and the ambulance can't get to the entrance? What does the system say to that? And how persistently can the authorities remain silent? And how, after one investor was denied the location conditions for the construction of the building, within three days those conditions were approved
Satisfying only the minimum share of greenery in market-oriented construction has become the rule. Support for such a situation is increasingly provided by planning documents, under the guise of concern for the public interest (which it is not). The reaction of the inspection authorities is most often absent, and cities are left without a key defense against excessive heating and pollution
A businessman from Dubai, Muhamed Alabar, who is enabled by the Serbian government to buy Belgrade part by part, did not manage to buy even a part of Zagreb because the professional public, the opposition and the citizens prevented the local authorities from selling it to him.
Today, a protest was held in front of the "Yugoslavia" hotel due to the announcement of the demolition of this architecturally and historically significant building and the construction of another megalomaniacal residential and business complex in its place. The participants said that the development of Belgrade must not be dictated by investors, but that it must be guided by the interests of the citizens of Belgrade.
Since the beginning of the implementation of the Belgrade on Water project, we have been indoctrinated with a new development paradigm that roughly reads: "Either a few of us will get rich, or you will all fail", which resulted in the spread of predatory urban practices throughout the city.
"All the current and larger and smaller projects that are currently being implemented in Belgrade or are in the planning phase are not part of the strategic framework of the city's development, but are random, arbitrary interventions in the area that reflect the pressure of big money and corruption in the ranks of the government and administration," he says to "Time" Bozena Stojić, member of the Ministry of Space collective
"The decision of the Temporary Authority of the City of Belgrade to sell the land adjacent to it to the company that owns Marina Dorćol at a price of 1.050 euros per square meter is a continuation of the practice of selling the most valuable land to investors at a very low price," Zeleno- left front Dobrica Veselinoc
It is planned to demolish one of the most recognizable Belgrade fountains with the famous waterfall. The idea is to remodel it on the model of the original one from almost six and a half decades ago without the water fountain
